AN APPRECIATION.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4344, 18 November 1921, Page 3

AN APPRECIATION.

Sir,, —May I, pei’ medium of your valuable paper, express my appreciation of the very apparent value to the Plains of .the recently started bus service, namely, Paeroa-Ngatea, via Netherton and Kerepeehi. I believe before many .weeks hence the majority of residents Plains will have reason t|o be grateful to the enterprising firm of Brenan and Co. for the service. Could I appeal to yourself, the Paerpa Chamber of Commerce, and the residents of the Hauraki Plains to make a united appeal to the postal authorities to have the present wretched mail service substituted by a regular daily service, which the new bus service could, offer ? RESIDENT OF THE PLAINS. [There is.ppw no excuse whatever for Mie retention of the present archaic mail service for t)he Hauraki Plains. Petitions should be taken all round the Plains and in Paei’oa, urging that the Plains should be given a daily mail service, per motor bus from Paerpa. The present tidal river service via Thames might suit a backward people of the seventeenth century, but it. is a grossly slow, wasteful, inefficient, uncertain, and altogether unsatisfactory service, and quite unworthy of an enlightened nation. All concerned are wondering what mysterious reason the Postal Department has for delaying the acceptance ofi one or other of the very reasonable tenders put in for the Paeroa-Plains mail service. If the petitions are not immediately effective, a good strong deputation might be sent to Wellington to demand the reason why.—-Ed. Gazette.]