RURAL MAILS.
DEPARTMENT’S NEW SYSTEM
“A new system of rural mails was established on the Ist January, 1922, for dealing with postal deliveries in rural districts,” states the Financial Statement, delivered in the House of Representatives last night, ”’j he principal alteration was that requiring rural box holders to pay an annual fee of £1 for a delivery in excess of thrive weekly, and 10s for a delivery having a frequency of thrice weekly or less. Deliveries are now established only where a reasonable return may he expected for the expenditure involved, and the fixing of the above charges enabled the Department to cancel most ol the contributions formerly paid by settlors. In some cases these contributions fell very heavily on a few. The small charge referred to converted the annual loss ot £4700 to a profit of £2BO, and enabled the Deportment- to proceed with establishing additional deliveries in the lar back blocks without loss. The box holders under the old system totalled 8700; the number is now over 1(1.000.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2469, 19 August 1922, Page 4
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171RURAL MAILS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2469, 19 August 1922, Page 4
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