The Fielding Star. TUESDAY,MAY 13, 1890. A New Post Office.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 137, 13 May 1890, Page 2

The Fielding Star. TUESDAY, M AY 13, 1890. A New Post Office.

The- time has now arrived when the residents in* this rapidly progressing settlement should be provided with better Post Office accommodation.; Tbe present barn- like edefice at the Eailway Station has done good service in its day, when the population was scanty and tbe amount of work to be done comparatively trifling ; but now that the population has more than quadrupled) and the work has increased in proportion, the present building should give place to a more convenient structure. One main reason for advocating this is that when any members of the public desire to have a conversation with the Postmaster in connection with life insurance, or property tax business, privacy is at present impossible, because there is only the public lobby j where interviews can be held, and that is, as a matter of course, accessible to everyone. Very few people care that everyone else should know what their property tax or life insurance amounts to. Another objection to the present lobby is, the counter is so short that it ie almost impossible for ■ a telegram to be handed to she official without its contents being easily read by any inquisitive persons standing at the side of the sender. And last, there is not convenient standing room in, the lobby for even the number of holders of private boxes. By the. increase of the subPost Offices in. the new settlements opening up in the back country, and v the consequent increase of the numbers of mails outward and inward, the working room of the clerks is now too limited for the duties to . be performed. We do not say or imply that what has to be done is not doiie most efficiently, but we contend that in a very few months, unless there are more facilities given, the Public Service must suffer. The Government already possess in the middle of the town, on the Railway Keserve, an exoellent site for a new Post Office, whioh should be erected at the corner of Stafford and Fergusson streets, as the most convenient place. We hope the member for the district, Mr Maoabthur, will see his way to taking the matter in hand and induce the Government next session to grant a sum sufficient for the erection of a building which would not only^be a convenience to the public, but an ornament to the town. Feilding has two strong rights to ask for this concession ; first, because the revem.o from the post Office i nl Life Insurance Departments would more than justify it, and second it is the only time the people ever asked for anything.