POSTAL BUSINESS AT EASTBOURNE

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1574, 18 October 1912, Page 4

POSTAL BUSINESS AT EASTBOURNE

4 NEW OFFICE WANTED. Tho Hon. E. 11. lihodes was interviewed yesterdaj- by n deputation of Eastbourne residents (introduced by Mr. T. M. Wilford, M,l\), which asked tlmt a new post office should be erected in the borough on a site which Ims already been acquired. 'Mr. Wilford .saiil a post office such us hod been erected at Kaiwarra would fully satisfy Eastbourne. Mr. Rhodes said that he was not responsible for Kaiwarra.

Mr. 11. W. Sliprtt (Mayor of Eastbourne) said that existing arrangements were very 'inconvenient, and did not permit of any privacy in tho transaction of business.

Another member of tlie deputation said that a telegram often took six or seven hours in transmission from Wellington to Eastbourne.

Tho Postmaster-General said that lie sympathised with the request of tho deputation, and understood the inconvenience to which Eastbourne residents were subjected. He had a long list of applications for post offices, and could only say that their request would bo considered with others. He had hoped that they would be satisfied with something less than Kaiwarra had got. The post office at that place had cost .£2OOO.

A member of the deputation said that they would be satisfied with loss. Mr. Rhodes said that if possible he would put a vote on the Supplementary Estimates for a post office at Eastbourne, but lie could make no definite promise.