FOXTON ROAD RURAL MAIL SERVICE.

Shannon News, 2 November 1928, Page 3

FOXTON ROAD RURAL MAIL SERVICE.

ALTERATIONS .TO EXISTING TIME, TABLE. For some time past a large number of .box holders on* the Foxton<■ Read mral delivery service have been tatiiig to have the; mail service which was recently altered reverted to what it had been for the past twenty years prior to the* change over a month or ,so ago. A meeting of the settlers affected was held in the . Poroutawhao »HaJl on the 20th inst., at which Mr J. Linklater was present. A petition was presented to him with the request that he endeavour to have the old service .♦everted'-to. Mr Linklater got in touch 'with the Chief Postmaster on the matter, and, he, in turn visited the locality and met some of the settlers. The Chief Postmaster has now informed Mr Linklater that the .arrangements in connection with the service will be as follow: — ' * '■'■'{

To obviate the necessity of box holders having to change their address from Levin to Foxton the mail which reaches Levin from the south at 8.30 p.m. will be sorted before the mail'for Foxton closes. The effect will be that all correspondence ported or. received at Levin for rural delivery up till* 8.30 p.m. will be forwarded'to Foxton that evening and delivered between -8 and 9 a.m. next, day (approximately t|hree hours earlier than under the former timetable), while outward correspondence from the boxes, will be posted at Levin instead of Foxton as formerly. This latter provision should be of distinct advantage-W the majority of the settlers whose community of interest is with Levin, and will also enable correspondence to connect the same day with mails for both north and south, while the arrangement now in operation will meet.the wishes of the subscribers and .prospective subscribers' in the.Foxton area.