FIFTY YEARS' AGO.
"When Wanganui was a little village with a population of some 250 to 300 • scirls, "with scarcely an out-settler in • Turakina or Rangitikei, a room samesized as our present post cflico was sufficient for its purpose. ■ But our population, rural and local, has increased, is increasing, and assuredly will not bo diminished. Wanganui is, besides, a military station, and the addition to tlio correspondence therefrom arising is considerable. Under theso altered circumstances a new and larger p.jst office is required. Anybody may lc..:l; though the window into tho closo li• tie compartment on mail days and K:tisfy himself of the truth of what is rtatod. I'hen there really ought to be a i! increase of the miserable stipend now paid to our postmaster. Everybody knows and says that Mr. Woon is dili- ■ •; :it. attentive, and obliging in tho performance of his duties ... and are undT the impression that he is badly I paid his salary, we have heard, being l«s 'than that of a clerk in tho- Wcloffice."— Wanganui "Chronicle," October 30, 185b*
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1933, 16 December 1913, Page 16
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176FIFTY YEARS' AGO. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1933, 16 December 1913, Page 16
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