SPEEDIER MAILS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5390, 20 February 1929, Page 2

SPEEDIER MAILS

AUCKLAND CAR SERVICE.

PAERO/X AND NGATEA LETTERS.

As the result of representations, to the Postmaster-General by Mr HDent, on behalf of. the business men of Ngatea. a daily letter mail service between Ngatea and Auckland and Pae, oa and Auckland has been arranged.

The Hon. J. B. Donald’s, letter to Mr Dent, dated February 12, was as follows :—

“With reference to your, letter of December 31, asking tha.t mails be conveyed daily between Ngatea and Auckland by passenger service car, 1 have pleasure in informing you that arrangements are being made for the acceptance of the offer of Messrs. Waihi-Paeroa Transport Co., Ltd., to convey, free of cost, letter mails each way between Paeroa, Ngatea, and Auckland.

The new service will commence as soon as the necessary arrangements ea.n be made, and it is hoped that the residents of Ngatea will find the arrangement. beneficial.”

The service will undoubtedly lie found beneficial, for under the exist-' ing arrangements letters posted prioi to 8 a.m, travel to Paeroa by car and thence by train to Auckland, with thq result that they are not delivered un-, til the following, day. The six mo-tor service cars that pass through Ngatea daily reach Auckland in 2% hours, and many people desiring letters posted urgently in Auckland have risked the £lO fine for each such offence and given their letters to the car drivers.