TOKOROA POST OFFICE.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 248, 2 August 1928, Page 7

TOKOROA POST OFFICE.

(To the Editor) Sir, —As our new post office is nearing completion let us hope for all concerned that it will be managed entirely on a different system from what the presept one is. As things are, and the way that the present one is managed, we may as well be without one for all the use it is to a good few of the residents. It seems to me that it is run on a sort of a half-time principle (to suit one person only). On several occasions, and at different times of the day, I have called for my mail and have found the office shut. After hanging around for a good half hour, and exhausting my patience, I have returned home disgusted with the way we don’t receive our mail.

Why is the office closed on Saturday afternoons ? On Tuesdays and Thursdays it closes at 3 o’clock. Even if there is no mail carried on that day from Putaruru the office should be kept open the full day for the benefit of any person wh» wishes to send an urgent wire. What is a post office for, anyway ? Is it to be opened and shut just to suit the one who is running it, as it appears to me ?—I am, etc.,

BETTER SYSTEM. [The hours mentioned by our correspondent are the correct ones as agreed to by local residents. If owing to the growth of the district these hours are no longer convenient then the Tokoroa Progress League might be persuaded to take the matter up with a view to getting an extension.— Ed. Press.]