EAST COAST NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1481, 15 June 1905, Page 3

EAST COAST NEWS.

THE NEED OE POSTAL 'FACILITIES..

(To the Editor, Gisborne Times.) gj ri Permit mo to draw attention through tho modium of your columns to tho disabilities tho people of Port Awanui and its neighborhood labor under owing to lack of postal facilities. That tho township and district are of considerable importance is evidenced by the fact that tho ♦ « Licensing Board ” consider that no less than threo publiohouses —two in tho township, and one within an hour's ride, at. Kangituhia—are necessary for tho woll-bo-ing of tho inhabitants. One is considered enough at tho other Coastal settlements, so they must bo ’of far loss importance. Under thoso circumstances it scorns strnngo that our post offioo should, unlike that at Tuparoa, Waipico, eto., bo still without a Savings Bank. Such an institution would be of very great practical good to those who are desirous of putting away small sums, and have no facilities at present for doing so. Our mail service, too, (a weekly one) may easily challenge the world as regards its slowness. The mail arrives at Waipiro Bay on Friday, and, although that settlement is only eighteen miles from Port Awanui, tho contraot time for tho mail to reaoh tho Port Awanui office is 5 p.m. on Saturday, thus giving tho mailman a whole day to

cover a distance that half that time would bo ample for. The tides, I know, aro set up as a bug-boar, but there is no weight in this. By starting a little earlier, if neoossary, as is donß in other places, on thoso days when tides may prove an obstacle, any difficulty in connection with them oan bo avoided, and there is no reason on earth why our mail should not be delivered at the post office by noon, except' under extraordinary circumstances. —I am, eto., Vox Claaiantis.

W HAN CIA R A'. XErom Our Own Correspondent.) June 12th. The weather for tho past two days has been simply Coming as it has after such a spell of frost, rain and hail of the past two wooks makes it all the more appreciated for the contrast. The roads have assumed a thoroughly wintry condition, but although there is ony-amount of mud to struggle through there is as yet nothing of a dangerous character for either horse or wheel traffic, with the exception of the Waihau rooks, which are still very bare, and where travellers require to exeroise every care, as they are very far from safe. The Pakarae river is not fordable at any state of the tide, but the punt is always available.

The distriot is very quiet at present, nearly all stook have been fixed up and placed in winter quarters. 3hoop are looking well for this season of the year, feed being plentiful.