THE NEW POST OFFICE.

Southland Times, Issue 22898, 25 May 1936, Page 9

THE NEW POST OFFICE.

To the Editor.

Sir,—Would these meddlesome busybodies please cease their activities and allow us to have our new Post Office. In spite of what they may think there is a large number of people in this city who are tired of having to, line up in a queue every time they visit the money order office, or having to walk over a chain of water puddles every tiqie they wish to post a letter on a wet day.—Yours, etc., v PERTINAX. Invercargill, May 23, 1936. BROADCASTS OF PARLIAMENT. To the Editor. Sir, —As a keen wireless listener may I be permitted to make a humble inquiry as to how long the infliction of Parliamentary broadcasts upon inoffensive licence-holders is to continue. A considerable number of wireless fans look forward with avid interest to the programme as advertised; and to learn at the last moment that a promised musical treat is to be supplanted by what may be described as a series of examples of soap-box oratory may, now, in the light of the past few weeks experience, be justly regarded as a descent from the sublime to the ridiculous. Sonatas may be dreary chamber music, may at times be irksome, but the dry statistics and the destructive criticism that pass for oratory in the House and are put over the air are surely in the nature of the straw that broke he camel’s back.—Yours, etc., FIVE-VALVE. Tapanui, May 23, 1936.