RURAL MAILS.
FEES CANNOT BE ABOLISHED
In reply to a request from the New Zealand Farmers’ Union that rural mail delivery fees should be abolished, the Postmaster-General (Hon. J. G. Coates) states that the request cannot be favourably considered by the Postal Department. The Minister points out that, with the increased revenue from rural delivery fees, the Department is enabled to extend the rural delivery system to more sparsely-settled districts. On the other hand, if the request of the Union were granted, the establishing of such rural deliveries would have to be considerably restricted. It can hardly be contended, he states, that the small fee charged is one which presses unduly on backblocks settlers. Notwithstanding the charging of a fee, the rural delivery system was gaining in popularity. The total number of rural boxes now in use throughout the Dominion exceeded 11,000, and the number was increasing steadily.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 September 1924, Page 4
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148RURAL MAILS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 September 1924, Page 4
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