MINISTERIAL.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14985, 4 June 1914, Page 9

MINISTERIAL.

DBPC'TATIONS TO HON. R. H -, ; RHODES.

"Yesterday afternoon a couple cf de-"-potations waited upon the Hon. R. • Heaton-Rbodes. Pc.tma-.ter-Genernl. ;n respect oi certain wants in tho Sprint™* . Cfflinfy Council district and at Kai- . fona.'.'

'.-:'•'"■■The-first deputation consisted of Mr Andrew and Mr Ireland, chairman of th* Spring. County Council, who {ffought eovcral 'jinvate matters urder ; tfie notico of .the Minister and also ap- ;. pr.fl_c.cd him in connexion with the i-Y' grant, for. the Lakes reads. V - jfessrs T. Qtiealoy and U r . F. ParkmV : ton waited upon Mr Rhodes iv cbnV; .iiexioji with some iocs! needs of Kai- >\. ijina. They asked that a post- dffiro |V should bo provided and guaranteed thnt i*-Y>f that were done somebody would he y obtained to look after it. Ascertain fY piece- of land wa. mentioned which 0Y Ycotild bo purchased and -which wou'd |V -provide a suitable site for the postoffice §.....'Tho Minister -was invited to visit tho ?;''•',-ii-ot ou his wav to Dnvauchelle on the t .\J2th ij. St., and sco for himself the nccdv |V pf the place.,.; '$<■;. V A_othef request preferred by tho fcjmie deputation was that a railw-.v shed should be provided. < It wa. i|s": Wo-itioned that -it. the present time •*'.' there were ono. hundred sacks of nota_|;.v t<»CB npori the sidinc unprotected from ;;.....Vine weather. Ttwns comolained 1 that ?;Y]' the.Christohurch.office, when a'd.ed for ; ..Y. tK-riniasioa to use a railwnycloth for %:'- .-.' of covering the t>6ta-o«»s, d«Y. .lined to allow this to bo done. It was YY that the p'nfform a«d €ne = sid.'ni-f'nouldvbe extended or in default o£ r the Matter refinest itbat a man ehoidd _. ijscpd on antr at the station when ■ ..nj£lines hnd *o be handled, •-._ , eWb<b*'cf ".h?seredues.s had Wi men- , iir.ftrl:;it was' said, to the Minister for rjldflmv*, but. somo improvement which he .had "in! mmect of .lighting '.'•.. ; 4a .Tin* bo .W carried, put. '••"''. '■■ :' '.." .'.'•; prrn-'V'.pr. tn cn-nve— t.h-» tat ions made" to the Minister of llaflwny.