The Mail Service.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 1, Issue 23, 14 August 1912, Page 3

The Mail Service.

There is another matter besides the extension to the school ibuilding which is most urgently needed, and which should most certainlyj receive more than favorable consideration. Although Aka Aka lanfl is second to none in the Dominion, and although settlement has rapidly increased and will most certainly increase as rapidly in the future for several years to come, we have the poorest for a mail service that one caq well imagine. We get only two mails $ week. This is better than nothing, jbut it is certainly not what the requirements and importance of our district demand. Lots of places not blest with even a shadow of the potentialities of our district have their regular tlaily mail, on which at all events they are to be congratulated. Different visitors to the district have from time to time expressed their amazement on hearing that only on Tuesdays and Fridays 4° we g et our mail —and well they might be amazed. However, I believe this matter will be brought very shortly under the notice of our esteemed friend and parliamentary representative, Mr W. F. Massey, who will doubtless be able to secure us a regular daily mail service.

At a meeting of settlors held in the public hall on Friday evening it was decided to join in with jthe Waikato Farmers' Bacon Co. 1 There were about fifteen present, and al l agreed to take shares and sunply. Mr J. Muir was appointed tofcanvass for shareholders, and also for signatures to a petition asking for ;| daily mail service to and from Ak a Akn.