POLITICAL NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13395, 19 September 1907, Page 7

POLITICAL NOTES.

(Special—By Ttlegraph.) MOQX'l' NKSSIXG. WKLLIXUTOX. September 18. _ Si;- W. .T. Steward was informed ;ift.eni(i(ni iliat <the telephone cxtev<si.m to Mount Nessing would require a. new Lv,f >ix and a half miles in length, at an estimated cost of £l7O. There is _no <K-se settlement, nor local post- <.Hk-e. ' !»** annual cost of -working was c-iiiii .tc-l n! £2l, and the revenue £5. which would leave a- d-eiicieuey of £l6 psr annum. .1 lie -•:: tension is one. which the PostmasterGeneral regretted lie could not authorise. HAKATARAX 1K A EXT KXSI (JX. An extension from Hakataramea to Rocky Point would nsquire, says the Vustmaster-General, a iuw lino of eighteen miles ;it an estimated cost of ££oo. There are no townships or post ofiiecs on the route. Tlr.j revenue may be- estimated at £l6 per annum. Supposing that two public telephone offlc. s were opened on the wire, or.e at iveleher's, the interest, maintenance aud working expenses woulu bs £55 p.ir annum, and 1 -the annual deficiency £39. If the line were terminated at IvelcherV, twelve miles from Hakataramea, the cost would- be £3OO and the deficiency £22 per amuim. Ha would Ik> glad" to consider the extension as far as Kelcher's on condition that a guai«ntes was given to pay the estimated deficiency of £22 for five vears. WAIHAORUN G A. The member for Waitaki. who also asked ■whether the Postmaster-General will accede to the. requetst of the settlers; of the district for tlu- extension of the telephone (which now te,iminat-:« at Waihaofunga station homestead), to the Waihaorunga schoolhou.se, . one and a half miles only, received a' reply that tho Minister would be glad to arrange for the cV;isir.;!d telephone extension, provided the settlers pay the whole cost of the construction of the line, and arrange suitable accommodation free of cost, and of til? proposed telephonist acting without salary.