OKAIN'S BAY.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 422, 6 August 1880, Page 2

OKAIN'S BAY.

(FROM OUR WN CORRESPONDENT.)

A public meeting was held at Okain's Bay on Monday, the 2nd inst., to consider the advisability ot Bending a deputation to wait on the Chief Postmaster Ye postal for the Bays. Mr Thacket, on being called to the chair, read the notice convening the meeting, and asked Mr Hay to address the meeting. Mr Hay suggested that as there was every probability of the subsidy to the steamer carrying the Peninsula mails being withdrawn, the awkward position the Bays on this side of tho Penir.sula would be then left in should be urged upon the Chief Poßtniaster. At a similar meeting in Pigeon Bay it had been resolved to send a deputation for this purpose. He was of opinion that if economy only were to be studied, a daily mail could be carried via Pigeon Bay at & cheaper rate than as at present, via Little River ctach.

Mr Moore was of opinion that it would ■be more suitable for the Bays to have one mail per week, carried by steamer to. each Bay. Mr Brown thought that as the Bays, from their isolated position, were debarred from participating in any benefits derived from railways, but still wera taxed heavily to pay for the same, it was an injustice to take away their only means of communication. The Chairman thought that the time was not far distant when the Peninsula would be able to form a Company and provide Bteam communicatign indepen dently of the mail service, but that meanwhile, at least until the opening of the Little River railway, the subsidy to the steamer should be continued. A resolution waa passed appointing Mr Thacker one of the deputation to inter, view the Chief Postmaster. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr Hay and to the Chairman, and the meeting closed.