TE KUITI POSTAL FACILITIES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 162, 7 June 1909, Page 2

TE KUITI POSTAL FACILITIES.

| The rapid growth of the postal business at Te Kuiti is making it necessary for the Department to provide further facilities for the despatch of business at the local office. A new telegraph line connecting directly with Auckland has just been completed. The provision for direct connection was rendered necessary by the large increase in telegraphic, work, and telegrams can now j be forwarded with greater despatch I than formerly. A new telephone line i connecting directly with Auckland is also urgently required, as the present line is in use as often as the connection can be obtained, and the demand is growing. A letter carrier has been appointed to the office, and is c-xpectedto arrivein a few days. It is intended to havetwo deliveries a day. the morning delivery covering the towr.sh.-.p and suburbs, and the evening delivery embracing a more limited area. Twenty new private boxes are also to be added to the oiiice, so that in the matter of mail distribution little will be left to be desired. In view of the number of lines now being operated from the Te Kuiti office a lineman is to be stationed in the town, and a building is being erected to accommodate the man in charge, on. the post oiiice section. When the n;w post office 'was erected it v.-as quickly recognised that the building was utterly inadequate tor tr.e requirements of the town, ant: wner. the telephone exchange was established it was found necessary to make use of one of the living rooms attached to the oiiice, for the exchange. Two r.ew of the building in order to provmo tre necessary accontmodation for tr.ePcstpresent building is situated a suffcient distance back from the road to un- j able this to be done. 1