MAIL CONTRACT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 569, 28 June 1933, Page 6

MAIL CONTRACT

TOATOA SETTLERS ANXIOUS LEST SERVICE LAPSE A suggestion that the service car companies had deviated from the terms of the mail contract was made at a meeting of the Opotiki Chamber of Commerce by Mr. G. Day, Who asked for information regarding the ^mail rxrn beitween Motu and Opotiki. Mr. Day said that he was asking for the information on behalf of Mr. J. H. Reid. Mr. Peagram, in answer to the president, explained that the service car company was running under Transport Board regulations and he be^ieved that the Post Office officials were satisfied that the present system of carrying mails three times a week one way and three times the other way was satisfactory. He believed also that the company concerned had taken off the services in aceordance with the instructions of the Transport Board, not from their own free will. Mr. Day said the Toatoa settlers wanted to know what was going to happen when the present contract expired. Were they to be left without a service altogether? The president asked if the Toatoa settlers were taking any action in the matter. Mx\ Day said that the settlers had been caught somewhat unawares. The president suggested that the settlers at Toatoa should supply the chamber with some concrete evidence as to why a daily service should be run over this route and should then approach the chamber with a more definite request.