Rural post protest
The Ruapehu District Council has joined the cries of protest at New Zealand Post's increased rural delivery charges, At last Friday's meeting the council accepted deputy mayor Weston Kirton's recommendation to write to the Prime Minister, the member for Tongariro,
the minister of communications and the minister of state owned enterprises to protest the decision, recently widely publicised. Mr Kirton said he was in opposition to the charges because of the principle. Cr Bill Peach said everyone else in the coun-
try was holding prices, while state owned enterprises and the government were pushing up their charges. He said the whole postal system relied on cross subsidies and that the increases were a way for NZ Post to increase its income without putting up postal charges, but at-
tacked rural communities. "NZ Post assumed rural communities were too small to worry about - that we'd just lie down and die," said Cr Turley. Many coucillors felt that in principle, there should be not be any charge for rural mail box holders.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 431, 7 April 1992, Page 8
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