RURAL DELIVERIES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5315, 20 August 1928, Page 2

RURAL DELIVERIES.

MAIL SERVICES. LOSS TO DEPARTMENT. References to the Toss on rural mall services is referred ito in the annual report of the Post and Telegraph Departinent which has been presented to Parliament. “In the North Island', on the daily deliveries the department is losing 8s lid a year per box, and on deliveries with a frequency of tlir.icc weekly or less the loss is £1 ’IQs Id a year per bc,x,” states the report. Frcjm th’s it will be seen that the-.department 13 likely, as circumstances permit, to be anxious tq convert to daily frequency those deliveries with a, frequency of thrice weekly or less. t “Appdxiniately seventeen thousand fai’lmers have joined ,up with the rural-delivery system, and many more are considering its advantages. The annual fee.i s trifling—£l for da'ly delivery and 10s fop a delivery thrice weekly or less. Since the-.reorganisa-tion of the rural-delivery system and the .fixing of the small annual charge the growtli has ben phenomenal and the service effective. Many do npt realise tha.t by instituting a small annual charge—a registration fee—the department has converted a haphazard delivery into ’one thoroughly reliable and much appreciated by the farmers concerned.”