CLEARANCE OF MAIL BOXES

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1930, Page 14

CLEARANCE OF MAIL BOXES

IMPROVEMENT IN NEW PLYMOUTH INNOVATION TO OPERATE SOON. For the convenience of business people five town Post Office letter-boxes in New Plymouth will soon be cleared regularly at 12 noon, the new service beginning in about a week’s time. The post office staff has been re-arranged to suit the innovation and the office is merely awaiting the arrival of new time indicators from Wellington for attachment to the boxes before putting the new service into operation. With the new service the following letter-boxes will be cleared at 12 noon: The box at the railway station gate and the boxes at the corners of St. Aubyn and Queen Streets, Brougham and Devon Streets, Currie and Courtenay Streets, Devon and Liardet Streets. At present the times of clearance at these boxes varies from 10.3'0 p.m. to noon. The new clearances will give a closer connection with the mail closing at 12.45 which goes to Wanganui by the 1.50 p.m. train and to Wellington The alteration is being made by the postmaster (Mr. C. E. Beamish) at the request of the executive of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce. “There were difficulties, particularlyy in staffing, in the way,” said Mr. Beamish to a News reporter yesterday, “but now they ■ have been overcome. There is no doubt the service is necessary.”