CORRESPONDENCE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4998, 9 July 1926, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

KEREPEEHI TELEPHONE SERVICE. (To the Editor.) Sir,— Might I crave a little of your valuable space,in reply to your correspondent’s views on v the Kerepeehi telephone's. It would stem by his report that the chief postmaster was in Kerepeehi some months ago to discuss a, central. exchange: this was not so. It was owing to the continual complaints from Kerepeehi settlers as to the delay in' getting outside communication by telephone. Thismatter was eventually aired, at a ratepayers’ meeting, and' reported in' your paper,-which accomplished more than all the written complaints /together, a few days the chief , postmaster appeared. It was just waste of time to sit down and write a complaint, for all the satisfaction that was received from the reply. At the present time‘the department is canvassing in .the’ interests of Turua and Ngatea 'exchanges, while Kere-, peehi cajinot get a decent service by phone or postal facilities owing to - the cramped room used .as a post office and overworked postmistress who has to work under conditions that a.re a disgrace to a district the size, and as progressive as Kerepeehi / is’. . When a person wishes to use the phone, after a long delay as is mostly the. case, he has to go into a dark cupboard if the door is closed, and if he wishes to see he must have the door open, hud let all the world hear his business. Can the depart- ■ ment expect to get business under these- conditions. Also just .a reminder: If the settlers nearer the local office were connected to it instead of to the other townships mentioned Kerepeehi Would be entitled to at least a decent office a<nd exchange. = ONE OF THE RATEPAYERS.