Readers Write

Northern Advocate, 13 May 1939, Page 6

Readers Write

C Readers are invited to send lettersl for publication in this Column , ? A letter should be written in ink\ on one side of the paper, and i must bear the nance of the writer, f not necessarily for publication, | but us a guarantee of good faith.] i £

In receding an account of a report in ? yesterday’s paper of a statement made i by me, which was isolated from its |

context, the im-| pression may be? given that the!

QUEEN CARNIVAL ORGANISER.

Queen Carnival* organiser did not resign. I wish to? state that the organiser resigned on* condition that I be appointed. It was| only at his own request that his ser-1 vices were dispensed with.—K. HAYR ? (Northland Centennial Organiser). ?

The organiser, Mr R. H. Allan’s let- ? ter of resignation, forwarded to the • Queen Carnival Committee of Sub-| Zone A 5, was as follows: — t “Owing to the conditions govern- ? ing my activities in connection with forming of Queen Carnival commit-1 tees, I find I am at a deadlock. I re- ? 9 fer to various districts requiring a i commission on moneys raised. !

“I have failed to m'ake the people | Centennial-minded. Mr Hayr claims? that he has not found any difficulty; in this direction. I would therefore | suggest that Mr Hayr take control of| the organising of Queen committees, $ “I am quite prepared to retain the | seex’etaryship. \

“Trusting this request will be* agreed to, I remain, etc.” i With Mr Allan’s resignation, the 4 whole of the Queen Carnival Committee tendered us resignation, which was accepted. The application lor a continued service of the rural mail delivery to settlers on Tremaine’s by-road is now being freely discuss-

RURAL MAIL DELIVERY.

ed. 1 wish to clear up a few points in re-

lation to same. Firstly, it is now some 15 years since the inauguration of a through rural mail service, during which time the settlers on Tremaine’s road have enjoyed a continued service, arranged for them in lieu of postal facilities. A call has only been made at the depot, which is located up to a mile away from the settlers’ homes, once daily. The inward trip has also been long desired for inward" mail purposes, which have, in the main, to go through other channels as a case of necessity. The Ruatangata district, dating back to 1890 at least, had been served by 'a local post office for all residents. The outer district, since the inauguration of a rural mail service, has had some five miles of extension of service, yet takes up a stand to object to a definitely arranged servicing of Tremaine’s by-rodd, which requires only five minutes’ travelling time to carry out. Mr Copeland, the contractor, has informed me, firstly, that he felt if he agreed to continue Tremaine’s road service, naturally he would be called upon to continue the Brown’s road service. This should not be so, for I claim the case has no parallel. Mr Copeland was of opinion that to i get increased payment for servicing, | Tremaine’s road a sum of £IOO, he { suggested, would have to be asked, otherwise the position would revert to a payment on a pro ratio basis of his tendered price of £152 a year for a through service of six days per week.

Another point on which Mr Copeland felt sore was that since the through district had been served with the 2.15 p.m. daily train m'ail from Auckland, he has had to tie the mail himself, whereas the understanding was that he was to have office assistance in matter of the tieing up of the mail.

Mr Copeland is also of opinion that the quantity of mail carried lends itself to a consideration of reduced mail service. That being so, it brings me to the point where Mr F. Yates and myself (are no longer being served by the rural delivery of mail, and a considerable amount of letters, papers and parcels are involved. Should this through rural service be one in the main for goods and passengers, it is on the cards that the districts between Kamo and the Wairua bridge will, as a case of necessity, have to go into the matter of safeguarding a daily mail service E. S. TREMAINE.