FOXTON ROAD RURAL MAIL SERVICE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3866, 3 November 1928, Page 4

FOXTON ROAD RURAL MAIL SERVICE.

ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING TIME TABLE. For some time past a large number of box holders on the Foxtori Road rural delivery service have been agitating to have the mail service which was recently altered reverted to what it had been for the past twenty years prior to the change over a month or so ago. A meeting of the settlers affected -was held in the Poroutawhao hall on the 20th inst., at which Mr. J. Linklater was present. A petition was presented to him with the request that he endeavour to have the old service reverted to. Mr. Linklater got in touch with the Chief Postmaster on the matter, and, he, in turn, visited the locality and met some of the settlers:' The. Chief Postmaster has now informed Mr. Linklater that the arrangements in connection with the service will be as follow: — "To obviate the necessity of box holders having to change their address from Levin to Foxton the mail which reaches Levin from the south at 8.30 p.m. will be sorted before the mail for Foxton closes. The effect will be that all correspondence postecfor received at Levin for rural delivery up till 8.30 p.m. will be forwarded to Foxton that evening andsJeUvered between 8 and 9 a.m. next day (approximately three hours earlier than under the former. timetable), while outward correspondence from the boxgs will be posted at Levin instead of Foxton as formerly. This latter provision should be of distinct advantage to the majority of the settlers whose community of interest is with Levin, and will also enable correspondence to connect the same day with mails for both north and south, while the arrangement now in operation will meet the wishes of the •subscribers and prospective subscribers in the Foxton area.