HASTINGS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 190, 29 July 1911, Page 5

HASTINGS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

POST AND TELEGRAPH HOURS. The secretary of the Hastings Chamber of Commerce. in reply t*>

represents! ions made by th* Chamber to have the HastingTelegraph Office kept open eontin uously from ** a.m. to b p.m.. has received a communication from the secretary of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department regretting that for the present the request cannot be compiled with. The hours of attendance will be S a.m. to 3 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. HASTINGS POLICE PROTECTION. In reply to a copy of a resolution forwarded by the secretary of the Hastings Chamber of Com merer drawing attention to the insufficient number of policemen doing duty in Hastings and district, the Commissioner of Police (Mr. F. Waldegrave) has written stating that the question of making provision for further police protection at Hastings has been noted for early attention. “AN ECONOMIC ABSURDITY.” Mr. Eustace Lane has given notice to move at the next meeting of the Hastings ( handier of Commerce. “That the attention of the Government be drawn to the economic absurdity of dragging trade (that of Taharua and surrounding areas) 270 miles to Auckland which should come to port in about 70 miles and that the Gov ernment be urged to lay off the route of the East Coast Railway m sucl. a direction as will, consistent with its ultimate destination, serve as extensive an area of undeveloped countrv a s possible.