RURAL MAIL SERVICE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5294, 2 July 1928, Page 2

RURAL MAIL SERVICE.

NETHERTON-AWAITI AREA-

DELIVERY OF “THE GAZETTE.”

Starting at 1 p.m. to-day, a

daily rural mail delivery service has

beep commenced from Paeroa, Thames and Hubbard’s roads, to the Puke, round the Awaitf. Settlement to Netherton. At the moment 58 settlers have taken advantage of the service provided for them, and the department is confident that there will be another fifty who .will themselves of the service. The benefit of a rural mail service to the settlers is great, and it pow means that mail matter .posted l , say, at Auckland at 5 p.m., will be delivered at their homesteads early each afternoon. Special mail-boxes are obtainable erected at a convenient place onfhe erected at a convenient plase on ,the roadside. In addition to receivlng the mail, the contractor clears each box of any letters that have been placed there, and duly posts them on his return to the Paeroa post office. From inquiries made at least o,pe instance is known of a settler objecting, (o the rural mail service because he is afraid tha,t the post office at Netherton will be closed. On making inquiries at the Paeroa post office it ■has been learned that there is no l/kelihoodi of such a. happening, and the Netherton post and telegraph bffi.ee will function as usual. DELIVERY OF “THE • GAZETTE.” By the inauguration of the rural mail delivery another very real service is afforded the settlers ip. that they will now receive their “Gazettes’’ early in the afternoon. The management of the Hauraki Plains Gazette, ever alive to the interests of its regular subscribers, has arranged, to publish .at 12.30 p.m. now, instead of at 2 p.m. as formerly. Arrangements have been made with the mail c'ontractor to carry the “Gazettes,” and they will be delivered along the route with the mail to every subscriber. This means that the farmer will now receive the “Gazette,” delivered at his door, within an hour of publication. In organising this service arrangements have been made to deliver “ Gazettes ” also to those settlers who have not yet signed up for the rural mail service. A paper will be left for each settler who is on the service route, while those who are living off the route, yet within a convenient ■ distance, can arrange to have the “ Gazette ” left at some suitable placeNew subscibers :are requested to get into touch with this office, giving particulars, of the point at which they desire the “Gazette” left, a,nd arrangements wii.ll be ma.de accordingly. In addition to the local and district news published, the management has now arranged for a special service concerning stock sales in the district . and these, together with current market reports, should be of particular interest to farmers, and also an added inducement toi those who are not already subscribers to enrol at once and take full advantage of the rural delivery service.