POST OFFICE.

Auckland Times, Volume 2, Issue 58, 20 February 1844, Page 2

POST OFFICE.

We wait the return of Captain Fitzroy to the seat of his Government before we agitate the question of the Post Office. None is more important to the interests of the Colonists—and we shall look to them accordingly, for an united effort to bring the attention of the present Government to that subject, which, under the late adminisr,ration, cus been so much neglected.

The Post Office affects the “ bosom and the business” of every body in a civilized community,— and ought to be, so far, at all events, as regards the purposes of public intelligence, free of all charge —free as the air we breathe; all its costs and charges should be defrayed at the public expense, for the pub ! ic are benefited by every separate pulsation of . its constitution. This has now become well understood in England, and it is generally well understood in her Colonies a’so. We sec by a late nuin her of the London Journal of Commerce that all the the American and West Indian Colonies of Great Britain profit b. the acknowledgment of the principle. Are the Australasian Colonies only to suffer Uv an abeyance of what we may now call English Law ! in this matter I’

We trust that the public wm .tamper t us in a petition to.the Governor, which we s all certainly prepare as soon as he returns, that the Colony may be no longer e>eluded from the benefits enjoyed by the other offsprings of the parent land.