The Patea Mail. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1976.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 151, 20 September 1876, Page 2

The Patea Mail. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1976.

yj. It is never a pleasant duty to he compelled to a] iologi.se for shortcomings or offences, but on the ]»resent occasion we are obliged to ask the indulgence of 1 our readers, and wo have every hope that, o« explanation, they will afford it. The office of the Patka Mail has been removed, within the lust few days, or rather wc should say is still in course of removal, from premises nearly opposite the Court House to a new building next to Mr Tapliu’s store, Tim change is no light mill ter, in the truest souse of the adjectives meaning for there are some heavy pieces of iron to he unshipp d, r. fitted, and put together again—work that with a very limited staff taxes all its power. But for the very kind ami generous help afforded us on the occasion, we fear that at least one issue would Iravc had to he Held over. Thanks to this goodnature, we have boon able to produce the paper as usual, though wo confess to its deficiencies. In the new office, far better means arc afforded for .publication, and we will endeavor, by extra zeal in future, to make amends for any faults of the present. Amongst other friends who came forward ou the occasion, without fee or reward, we cannot, in justice, refrain from offering special thanks to Messrs James Lett, J. McCoy, T. Kells, Layby, Preiv, Oakley, and others, to all and each of whom wo offer onr warmest acknowledgments for the aid rendered at a needed time.