CORRESPONDENCE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 153, 6 May 1909, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

- ♦ TO THE EDITOR,

j Sir, —In reading over the Kaeaea j correspondence in your issue of the j 29th inst., I notice that your correspondent states "that had the settlers known the Post office was going to be closed another would have been opened in time etc." Now, sir, I do not know who your correspondent is, but I am going to tell him that the statement about the settlers not knowing of the matter is absolutely false, because every settler that came to my house for his letters was told that the Office would be closed unless the remunera- | tion offered for the coming year, £5, I was not increased. In fact, the late , postmistress asked the people that are j now going to do it if they wpuld take I the duties off her, and they declined j owing to the small amount of pay offer :d. Now, sir, considering that my daughter did the work of the Post- j ; office for nearly 13 months for nothing the least your correspondent could have i done would have been to have made , his remarks as kindly, and as honest as he was able to do, and not leave an l inference that we closed the office in I the manner that he has stated. By inserting the above you will oblige.—l am, etc., F. EL WOOD, Kaeaea.