NEW POSTAL REGULATIONS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 979, 21 January 1881, Page 3

NEW POSTAL REGULATIONS.

The following correspondence on the above-named subject has been handed to us for publication : “Clyde, 17th Jan., ISSL. “ Archibald Barr, E.'.q , “Chief Postmaster, Dunedin. “Dear Sir,-I desire to invite your attention to the exquisite inconvenience ennsed by the new mail arrangements in this district. “The disemtirtuanoe of a weekly mail ■ a the Nevis inflicts an inconvenience sn'cli as has never before been stiff red by the pe 'pie in any part of Otago. A forani _-hr.lv mail is not only useless, but it is absolutely a nuisance. The residents there cannot bo isolated from' all creation for 14 days at a stretch. To do so will he to remove thim practically further from Dunedin than tho people of Auckland, Melbourne, or Sydney, and anything more unjust and unwise it would be difficult to conceive. To add to the torture inflicted by the process, the mail leaves Cromwell on Tuesdays (alternate)', so that the Saturday mail; which brings up the Witness and other weekly papers (much real by the miners) is delayed at Cromwell till nearly tho middle of the following week. “Tho same remarks apply to the new derarigenjorlts of the Bannockburn mail The Saturday, mail', bringing the Weekly newspapers as aforeaai I, is kept ift fie (Cromwell office till the following Tues lay Any one who has resided in an up-country district will understand what an excessive hardship is involved in such delays.' i Sunday iff the only day of rest from labor, and the keeping back of the mail, which brings the week’s news, is a refinement of cruelty, most merciless in its operation. “There is not any saving to' the Government by these alterations, and I therefore urge that the old style may bo reverted to, and that Saturday may be made tho day for the mail to start from Cromwell to Bannockburn and Nevis ; and in regard to ■ t.h'e latter place, t rnrfst strongly insist on the riecessity of avoiding the paltry economy which, for tho sake of a few shillings per week, would deprive the residents there of a weekly mail. “If you cannot see your way clear to carry out these change's yourself, I have to request that you will forward my letter to’ the Postmaster-General. “ Your obedient servant, "VIKCRNT PVKE, M.11,11.”