POSTING BOXES AND STREET TELEPHONES

Taupo Times, Volume II, Issue 85, 4 September 1953, Page 4

POSTING BOXES AND STREET TELEPHONES

THE Businessmen's Association are to be congratulated on taking up with the Post and Telegraph Department, as mentioned in our report of the Town Board meeting last week, the matters of street telephone boxes and postal pillar boxes. With the growth of population in the town in recent years there is no doubt that the time has come for a start to be made with such necessities. Posting boxes in the vicinity of the hospital, the junetion of Rifle Range and Mere Roads, and at Waipahihi, would serve important areas of population and would seem to be a reasonable minimum provision to meet the needs of the present population. Similarly the provision of telephone call boxes, as suggested by the Association, would be a convenience to which the town's growth entitles it. It is to be hoped that the Association, backed up as it is by the support of the Town Board, will have no difficulty in securing the Departmental agreement to their request. The progress which has led- to the grant of borough status should be sufficient ground for that agreement, further evidenced as it is by the great increase in the number of telephone subscribers, a matter of which the Department has, of course, full knowledge. It would be pertinent, too, to include with the two amenities mentioned the equally important one of the establishment of a continuous telephone service, a matter which the Businessmen's Association also has in hand.