TIAKITAHUNA'S DAILY RURAL MAIL SERVICE OPERATES FROM TO-DAY
This morning the residents of Earcre, Tiakitahuna and Rangitanc receive their first daily house-to-house rural mail delivery, for which the “Manawatu Daily Times" Company have been appointed contractors.
• Since the Palmerston North office has been created a chief post office there ;has been a very considerable extension of the rural delivery system in the wide area under its jurisdiction, and the chief postmaster (Mr. A. Dawson) has at present a number of other extensions under consideration. Tiakitahuna's service will bo more than usually convenient in that the “Times" has arranged for an interval of three or four hours between delivering and collecting the mails. Thus if a letter requires an urgent reply it can be answered in time to be collected by the mail carrier on his return journey and will catch the midday mails going north or south. The “Times” is now carrying seventeen separate mail services for the post office and the total daily distance covered in its combined newspaper and mail runs is 1046 miles. Five cars, six motor cycles and one bicycle arc used in this comprehensive service.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6668, 23 July 1928, Page 6
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190TIAKITAHUNA'S DAILY RURAL MAIL SERVICE OPERATES FROM TO-DAY Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6668, 23 July 1928, Page 6
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