THE RURAL MAIL SERVICES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18444, 4 January 1922, Page 5

THE RURAL MAIL SERVICES

1 ' ■ , TO THE EDITOR. ' . Sib, —f was much interested in Mr A. D.. Bell’s note with reference to rural -maila 1 and in your editorial of the 29th December on the same subject. ~ . ' Much indignation has boon felt and .expressed in .this district on she/way we art. to “ ;be treated with our madi, The facte ooncoming the service have only become pafaljer’ $ through being" posted up at the PoskOffico. -For a long time wo have hod a thrice- - 'Sweekly service by coach from Palmertyon, ;,-j; There has been a jHimour of a motor service and a reduction of services. : A publio>m*®t“ A? ing was held at Macraes Flat protesting. , - against a ‘ i-eduction also a pfeUtion was t "7 taken round the district and almost unanimously signed by the residents. __ - . • >■'* The motor service certainly ought to bo an' •; improvement and would-be if some common ' Ji sense was used in the arranging of matters, \ t but if the “powers that be” have tlieir .way We Will soon be back in the “stone ago.” ,A The mail coach in the past stayed over- V\> night in Moonlight, this giving an oppOPv 1, til tunity to answer any, urgent letter by . re- ■','i turn mail. Under the new arrangement Jbho rnkils airive at Moonlight on Monday* '*? and Thursdays at 1.4 G p.m. and depart a.V .]g 1.45 p.m.—just long enough to change tboi .-J mail bags. are not to bo delivered V'S till after the ,oar has deported. ( Consequently, if a letter is written in Dunedin on Monday it will not arrive at Moon--" w light till Thursday and an answer cannot . .'J be sent till the. following Monday. y The Government makes out that it iff'*,'s anxious target people on the land awaV '■ from the towns; but-by itfl actions it vrill ,’|; drive them to the towns to swell the ranks ..V of the unemployed.—l am, etc., ■ . >?i Andrew Habvie. Nenthorn, Moonlight. ' ' 'r “V