INLAND POSTAL EXPENDITURE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1154, 10 April 1872, Page 2

INLAND POSTAL EXPENDITURE.

L ..The following figares are of interest as showing the action which has been taken with respect to the Inland Postal Service during the current financial year. The figures were obtained by the Nelson Colonist onj- inquiry at- ofiiciai'' sources, and may be taken as a close approximation, to accuracy. The omission of shillings and pence make the totals' only approximate :— Province or t IB7O. 1871. County, ' Amount. Approximate. Auckland/ „..-; iE^U £2969 Taranaki^^;-^i3230 630 Hawke's Bay... 714 1239 :; ' r WeUington v.r : ''232f ; ! 27felC :'• Nelson... ... ■ 1519 '^ ' 1275 • Canterbury; ... : 4772' 7r 3910; : Marlborough...; ! •■ ! 694" : !! « 729 : Otago 6079 , 5120 Southland 1 ' '.!. " 1145 '" ' 985 ,-: Westland:* „«•„ f-2676. ,; 'i' 2572 :,,. .General charge, } _^ — . /. ; i f i ? •' jISPQ .■ . ri T0ta1,,,.., £23;565'(; ,^£$$®t. .. ( The. increased expenses of mail services "in Wellington. and Taranaki for lß7l, is the charge for the, service between Wanganui and.New"Piyniou.th; ! The general charge of LISOO for t^' is' also part of the cost 1 of ■ that service^tKeVwhole cost being L3OOO a-year. • • ""• ' ' The amount stated as the cost: of :, Bervices in HaWke's Bay for 1871,, Includes the charge for, services from Napier ' : to Taupo, and frpm'.Taupo ! ; to Tauranga, namely, L3OO a-year,/ These services were. discontinued on Ist. January, 1872. A service was established from Taupb ? to Cambridge in 1871j 'to be performed by a native once a week for Ll6O a-year. In the Province of Nelson; a service . was ; established . between , Westport and Reefton once a week, at a cost of LI BO ayear, on. the. 13th May, ] 871. < In other Provinces, the; mail communication maintained in 1870 was continued in 1871,- and was : considerably improved and exjiended during the iatter year.''' w ■'•'•■- !< ■'■'- -;■■•■• The mail services, generally, .throughout the Cplp^y- wOTe^gre^tiy-riimproved and extended, and if the cost of the service „betw k ee^;Wanganuiriand!iNew:, Plymouth, .amounting/ to L3OOO per annum; /be deducted, it will be seen that these improvements were effected,, at a considerable reduction in the^TOtal A <l ues tip|ii;^^^^^» arises as to whether the expens©»6E»thiß new servicV by t road between ,!Wanganui»,and New Plymouth is warrantable. ' L3OOO se^ms a very large^sum- to pay for such a service ; and, unfprtunately.,.s.uch increases, like the leank^eof'PKardah, swallow up the well-favoredi-; and render, as in this case, the regular savings nugatory. It is, doubtless, something- satisfactory to find CobbY coach,, tarayeraing a region* but lately barred by bloodthirsty savages, and the . , f apt i shcjws , progressive • peace ; and civilisation; but, in view of the return for themonejr, LlO.per.day.ia rather too large a siiiri to be paid for the progressive "whistled ■■ -■ ! •^"'-•' •