FOXTON’S MAIL SERVICES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1999, 5 July 1919, Page 2

FOXTON’S MAIL SERVICES.

DEPUTATION TO POSTMASTER.

A deputation, representing (lie local business people, Availed on tlie local postmaster (Mr A. Hawke) Ibis morning - in connection with the local mail service from Palmerston North, which was considered most unsatisfactory. Mr Whibley said what was required was at least one mail daily from Palmerston North and northwards. Since the curtailment of the railway service, mails from the north had only been despatched from Palmerston North to Pox ton on the days on which the (rain runs, and there was no mail received from that quarter from Wednesday until Friday night. A mail could quite easily be sent from Palmerston via Shannon and Levin on the days on which there was no, train service. The business people recognised that the fault did not lie with the local post office, as mails from. Foxtou-to Palmerston North were despatched twice daily via Levin, when there was no train to Palmerston. What they wanted thd postmaster to do was to put their: representations before the officials in Palmerston North, with the re-' quest that an immediate improvement be made.

In reply to the deputation, Mr Hawke said that yesterday afternoon he had got into communication with the officials in Palmerston N. on this subject, and as a result had been advised that in future a mail would be despatched to Foxton via Levin on the days the Palraerston.Foxton train did not run. As far as his official duties were concerned h* had nothing to do with the despatch of mails for Foxton ' from other places, but he recognised the inconvenience Foxton people would be put 1 to through no mails arriving from Palmerston on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and had therefore put the position before the officials there, and pointed out that mails could be despatched via Levin. As soon as the restricted railway service came into operation he had made the necessary arrangements to despatch the mails that were usually sent by train via Levin, and naturally expected the officials in Palmerston would do the same. When he found they were not doing so, lie had at once.got into communication with them. However, the matter had now been arranged, and Ihe mails would arrive via Levin at 1 o’clock off Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The deputation thanked Mr Hawke for the steps he had taken.