DEPUTATIONS TO THE PREMIER.

Colonist, Volume XLVIX, Issue 11812, 17 December 1906, Page 6 (Supplement)

DEPUTATIONS TO THE PREMIER.

fc A RECEIVING POST OFFICE -. ASKED FOR. 3 Yesterday afcomooi -\ number o I-' ' i-itrrtions (introduodd by Mr Gra • ' :. i 1. T.H.R., waited upon the Pro t mior a-G thfl Municipal Buildings The first deputation, consisting o , ■ h?tween fitfy aud sixty representativi . business rrcn, asked that a receiving .)~\;\\3 be provided at the old pos office r Mr A. T. Mag nnity, on behalf o , the deputation, said there had beei c in the past a good deal of faelinj 3 over the Post Office site, but t'aa c feeling was now dead. He askec 1 the Premier to fulfil a promise mad 0 to give the business people of th c southern portion of tbe city reason a able facilities for carrying on thei t postal business. They had consider s ed carefully the matter, and no un s reasonable demand would be made c He congratulated tbe Governmen

d and the people on the fine building r- that had been erected. The soutt c was, he said, the chief businesi s end of the city, and for every tele - gram sent from the northern enc i, the south sent tsn. (Applause. r They asked the Government to pro 0 vide" in the old office a Receiving ) Office for letters registered letter; - and telegran\3. c The Premier said he would noi [j be justified in establishing two Posl Offices in a town the size of Nelson. r If they did, it would mean that it t some places two or even three subr offices would have to be established, b besides it would be taken aB an admission that the new office was a in the wrong place! (Hear, hear, j and loud applause. ) p Mr Maginnity suggested that a 3 record be kept of letters and tele--1 grams posted at tbe v old office. They , were merely asking for a receiving , office, not a Post Office, so that telef grams could be handod in that way. p Sir Joseph said it had not been » lio.s.siblo to put the new Post Office oil the old site, and they had to get • auother. He felt sure it would not be long before a great deal of tbe imaginary trouble would cease. ; The deputation then thanked the ■ Premier aud withdrew, n -,*,^.