Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1901. POSTAL DELIVERY.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 October 1901, Page 2

Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1901. POSTAL DELIVERY.

We need not advocate Sunday labor, but circumstances are constantly arising that render a few hours work on Sunday necessary, and therefore perfectly justifiable. Through the blundering of the Union Company, the 'Frisco mail only reached Greymouth on Sunday morning. The doors of the Post Office certainly were opened for the intaking of the mail bags, which were then piled on the floor till Monday morning, when the leisurely sorting and delivery characteristic of the institution was gone on with. Mark the difference at Hokitika. Upon the« arrival of the Southern portion at Greymouth, the Hokitika bags were promptly sent on by special train, reaching there at eleven o'clock. The mails were, says the Guardian, quickly sorted into the private boxes, and a public delivery made over the counter. Judging by the number who assembled at the Post Office at such short notice, the public evidently appreciated the thoughtfulne3S on their behalf. There was a time, long long ago, when similar "thoughtfulness " was extended to the people of Greymouth. But these times are evidently past and gone. Our Post Office building is old, musty, and frail; can it bo that the habitues are effected by their surroundings ? Special trains and twenty miles inland th 9 mails are delivered; at the centre and chief Post Office they lie silently upon the old decayed floor; while the public resignedly look at the old structure and comment upon the doings, under similar circumstance, of long, long ago.