Postal Service for the Sounds.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 28, 2 May 1890, Page 2

Postal Service for the Sounds.

A meeting of settlers on the west side of the Pelorus Sounds, including residents in the Nikau Bay, Pour Fathom Bay, Maori Bay, Nydia Bay, North-East Bay, &c., will be held at Nydia Bay at 2 o’clock on Saturday next to consider the grievance they suffer under for want of a mail service. At present there is a larger number of families than at Manaroa, where a mail is taken regularly, while from Maori Bay to World’s End the settlers are practically cut off from all postal arrangements,: and a settler in these parts, to post or receive a letter is compelled to give a long and arduous day’s labour in pulling up to Havelock and back. We trust that the meeting will be able to devise some practical means of meeting their requirements, and it that case they will have a just claim upon the postal authorities to have a mail service established. Facility of communication is the great want of the Sounds. Land is even now rapidly being taken up, and if the Government would only spend a little money in opening communication the whole of the land would soon be occupied by a large industrious population, and the initial outlay would soon be reimbursed. We see no reason why a thorough mail service could not be arranged for the whole of the Sounds as it is very much needed, and should receive due attention at the hands of the authorities. That the settlers in the Sounds deserve to be treated liberally in this matter there can be no question, and we can only hope that such representations will be made at the meeting as will thoroughly convince the authorities as to its necessity.