PUTARURU POST OFFICE.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 151, 23 September 1926, Page 4

PUTARURU POST OFFICE.

M.P.’S URGENT REQUEST. - m “ Position Intolerable.” Speaking on the Public . Works Statement in the House, Mr. F. F. Hockly, member for Rotorua, direwt the Government’s attention in outspoken language to the urgent need for additional accommodation at the Buta-ruru. post office. _ _ The Hansard report of Mr. Hockly’s remarks is, as. follows: “It has been mentioned already that votes. appear on the Estimates and ape pot spent. That inevitably happens every year, and always will happen ; but there is one particular vote that, I want the Minister, to take notice of and see that the money is spent. That is the vote in relation. Ijo the. post, office at Putaruru. This place ..has grown very much ip .recent and to-day the postal facilities there arc quite inadequate. r Tlie .postmaster has recently been made registrar of marriages,, and he has noyplace to solemnise a marriage except in the public office and in view of everybody who comes in. The place is very crowded, and time and again one can hardly force the door open because of the mass of mail. matter inside. The position is intolerable. A vote .of "£BOO appears on the Estimates for it, and I want to impress upon the Minister the importance of putting that work in hand at the earliest possible moment, because it is a great inconvenience to everybody so long as the post office remains in its present state.”