THE Kawhia Settler. FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1906. KIRITEHERE MAIL SERVICE.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 259, 18 May 1906, Page 2

THE Kawhia Settler. FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1906. KIRITEHERE MAIL SERVICE.

At the prusent lime a mail is sent to Kiritehere once a f rtnigat, consequently le ters sent there can only be replied to after that lapse of itne. Although tbo mailman gne.g t > Te Maika once a week on bis own business be does not ct.rry the mail on alternate weeks, he lot being paid to do so. It is stated that the Postal authorities consider th at even a fortnightly service is too much for the number of letters, etc., which pass through the post; but if there wis a weekly sorviae more than doubil the number would be despatched. About a fortnight ago it is stated only four loiters wore carried by the maiiman, but a correspondent assures us tbat he and bis family alone eent fifteen letters and papers by private hands to be posted at Kawhia, having mistaken the day and posted on Saturday instead of Friday n»eht wnnsc tne fynowrng week thirteen letters were sent by the ordinary mail, and the alternate week about a dozen. All these, besides wh.it other settlers w.-.uld post, would be sent through the Kiritehere Post Office if the mail service was a wsek.y one. It seems to us as if post offices were run simply for the revenue, not for the convenience of settlers. “Unto him that bath ■hall be given ” is appar nt y the I motto of the Now Zealand Postal De pariment.