The Fielding Star. SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1890. A New Post Office

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 139, 17 May 1890, Page 2

The Fielding Star. SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1890. A New Post Office

Since we wrote advocating the erec tion of a new post office here, we have received several communications from residents supporting our views. One reliable informant has stated that the business of the Post Office Savings Bank was seriously retarded by the impossibility of depositors paying in their money with any degree of privacy, and on the other hand persons were prevented opening new accounts from the same . good and sufficient reason. It has been suggested that the Government will be disinclined to erect a new building on the reserve, but, if they did anything at all, it would be merely to build an addition to the existing barn. We would object to that altogether, because the present situation has many inconveniences not the least of which is the fact of it being at the railway station. On the arrival and departure of trams the platform, which is only intended for the use of pasbenfrers arriving and departing, is inconveniently crowded by the presence of persons who have only that way into the post office for their mails. Of course we know that there are numbers attracted by the merest idle curiosity, but that does not alter the fact that if the post office were removed passengers would be able to move about, and get in and out of the railway carriage without being hampered by a lot of idlers. It has-been hinted that as the member for the district, Mr Maoarthor, is not en rapport with the present Ministry, there is very little chance of the grant being made. We put that piece of foolishness aside at once. We do not ask for the grant as a reward for political support either in esse or in posse, we aßk for it because it is not only for the good and welfare of the town and district, but as a part of the great whole* of the public service of the colony: If the Government are weakminded enough to look at it in any other light they deserve to be more pitied than condemned.