The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. THURSDAY, JUNE 4,1908. OUR MAIL SERVICE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2208, 4 June 1908, Page 2

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. THURSDAY, JUNE 4,1908. OUR MAIL SERVICE.

Whereas most towns of any size in the Dominion have a daily mail service, giving constant communication with all points, Gisborne lias to bo Satisfied with a bi-weekly service, a fact which is the cause of considerable inconvenience to business people and, indeed, to local residents generally. Unfortunately, there is at present no means of obtaining a more frequent service for the postal department is entirely dependent upon the steamship companies for the transit of the mails. In the same way the irregularity that occurs in the running of the steameis is -reflected in vexatious delays in the delivery of mails, -and this, too, is unavoidable under existing conditions. It might, however, be reasonably expected that the Postal Department would leave no stono unturned to make the utmost of so unsatisfactory a service, but instead it persistently neglects local requirements. As an .instance one has only to quote the case of the Southern mail which carno to hand by the Wanaka yesterday morning. It lay in the post office all day, and was not sorted until la to yesterday evening. The reason, of course, was that the day w-as being observed by the post office as a public holiday, but it could surely havo been arranged that someono could have been available for u short period in the early part of the day to sort the mail in question. Similarly the Auckland mail which arrived in the -afternoon was not sorted until evening. A similar disability exists in connection with tho Northern mail which arrives in Gisborne oil Sundays. Frequently it reaches the post offico early in tho day, but tho loiters cannot be obtained until Monday morning. These are matters concerning which .representations might very well he made to the Postal Department, but the unfortunate circumstance is that there ia no organisation in existence whoso business it is to fake a move in a matter that vitally affects local business interests. It is just possible that the newly-formed Employers’ Association, which comprises representative business men of the town, might see its way. to investigate such questions as that referred to, and there seems no valid reason why it should confiuo its operations solely to topics -affecting the respective relationships of workers mid employers.