CORRESPONDENCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1919, Page 1

CORRESPONDENCE.

e “WAKE-UP! SOUTH WESTLAND” j (To the Editor.) Sir, —Just a little.of your valuable I space to enquire if there are any right minded individuals in the Postal Dept. , I You are no doubt aware that the South I Westland mail contract concluded with , the old year and so far lias not been re- , I newed. I hear however that arraugeI ments have been made for a mail once I a week. Why should the settlers of I South Westland be penalised in this I manner? For years they have enjoyI ml a bi-weekly service which was well I deserved, and now they are suddenly I told that they will have to put up with I a mail once a week. Since the end of tlie year the mails have been coming I “any how,” and the unpardonable I blundering and want of consideration I on the part of the Postal Department has cost many considerable inconvenience and expense. The peculiar part jof the business is, that while there I have been coaches coming down day . J; after day with tourists, the settlers I have had. to go without their mail. L It is a good thing that the member for Westland is shortly to return _to . I duty as it appears that the settlers of 0 South Westland are quite incapable of j looking after themselves. When one speaks to many of them, with reference to the state of .affairs, the answer is dolefully forthcoming—“ Well, I. suppose we will have to put up with it.” I always understood that the settlers of li South Westland had grit enough not to w be bluffed and trodden on In the way L they are; but it appears that they arc fi prepared to take any insult tlxe gov- g eminent like to pass to them, “lying P down.” Perhaps when their member comes back be will be able to muster h; them, for at present they seem to be quite unable to stand up for them- in selves. They don’t seem to realize U that by losing the more frequent postal service they become further away m from civilisation, which must reduce the value of their properties all round, at For the sake of their reputation, let w the people of South Westland stand up for their rights and not allow those iu is authority to treat them as tuey like. I am, Sir, st ONE, NOT ASLEEP. fit South Westland, Jan. loth, 1010.