THE POST OFFICE QUESTION.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 9, 9 July 1886, Page 2

THE POST OFFICE QUESTION.

(TO THK 1111 (Toil.) Sir, — I was very much surprised on Wednesday to hear that Mr Dawson wa. getting a petition signed to be forwarded to Government, praying that no euqi* be taken to remove the Post < >tSce site from tho present locality. No doubt Mr Dawson fuels a little soro at any attempt to interfere with what he is beginning to consider his private property; but this idea must be exploded sooner or later, and it is pe*'iups just as well for him to bow to the inevitable now as in six months time. It is now some months since the question of getting a more ceutrul site cropped up, and at one of the largest public meetings ever held m Pahiatua it was decided to offer Govemineut a section of land as near the present bustness centre ae was possible. Then was the time for Mr Dawson to have raised his voioe, but he remains silent until everything has been done—even to forwarding the offer to the Government in writing. I for one do not consider the present situation at all convenient, and for various reasons the connter-petilion is ill-advised. Let anyone watch the main road after the arrival of the mail coach, and it will not take an unbiassed mdi vidua] long to determine where the Post Office should be, for I believe that nearly the whole of the people who visit the office for correspondence come from the south end. I will give Mr Dawson credit for having done good eervioe to the district, bul the time must come when necessity will compel him to relinquish his |>osilion as post-master. an 1 perhaps the sooner it is d. r.c the sooner will the sore be healed.—l am. Ac., Faia Pur.

(TO THU EDITOR.) Sir,—l see that tbe Danevirke people ; are waking np to the fact that thsir postal > and telegraph business should no longer b« conducted at a store, and by the AA’oodvilie Examiner I notice that two or three tradesmen go to the next station rather tbau use the I.Tal office, which is kept by rirels m business. Now, sir, I knvwr fr>r a fact that ihe revenue of the l'ebiaiua Telephone Office suffers considerably from a similar reasou. and it is to be hoped that if ihe receipts are to be the basis on which Government grant a proper office, superintended by a duly qualified officer, thev will take tliis into re nsideraliou. 1 could point out many other objections t j tile present postal arrangements. hut I think the above is quite sufficient to war rain the settlers in asking Government to proceed with the erection of a building ml once, I am S'ire there is quite ae lunch business done here as at some places Go veriunent have thougni it advisable t rrect offices and 1 think if ihe matter is represented properly we shall g»t lh« evd remedied.—l atu. Ac., Tkadrsmak. 1

(TO THR MOTOR. I Bib, —I bear that there is a petition being signed by some of our residents to have tile Poet Offico kept where it is, or failing tlial, Mr Dawson has premised a tile for the Prat Office somewhere on his land (perhaps at the Mangatamxku ltirerl. Now. air, in to. face of ti e tael that the public of l'ahiaiua have virtual!' settled that point at a public meeting held two uu At'a ago, at whi'h a committee was appointed ■.•• otter Gvemmsnl a site as near til* centre of the Textn D;*lnrl as

[w 4*. and which hi# i rn done, I take TV that xtLtKUtrri'r.Q ;h<f j-ctitn.ii are meu i to be relied on as Savsflg the interest* T the " mighty few •* at heart. Such uni. r. lutnd work as Inis deserves the utnu »t publicity, and : h p* ts> are the business meu of P dnatua corns to the fruit like iu, n and rSKtlieyg Its i i«i such conduct a« this.—l am, Ac., Jrmcia.