BUSY POST OFFICE

Taupo Times, Volume IV, Issue 155, 14 January 1955, Page 5

BUSY POST OFFICE

| NEED FOR 24 HOUR PHONE SERVICE | Following the heavy mail and ftMegraphic business handled at the Post OfRce over Christmas ,week-end, the traffic haridled over •the New Year period broke all premous records. Oh New Yea Ffc Eve po less thah 950 telegrams were pealt with, and on Jahuary 5, fwhen the office re-opened after the holidays, the number was 638. phe total for six days was 3847. The Postmaster, Mr L. F. W. Holdsworth, reports that there was a heavy demand for after-hour .telephone toll calls, and telegraph :service during the days when the jPost OfRce was closed. pThis demand underlines the need, |for a twenty-four hour telephone lervice in Taupo, a matter which Ihe Taupo Businessmen's Associa|ion has in hand and in connec|ion with which it hopes to secure |he requisite number of signatures, fiy telephone subscribers, to. the necessary petition for .a continuJms service. § House Numbering Suggested 1 One difRculty experienced by |he Post Office during the holidays ikld Mr Holdsworth, was in delivering telegrams to those on holiday in the town. A typical example quoted concerned a telegram whose addressee could not be located. Instructions from the office of origin stated that the addressee lived in a house in a qertain Taupo street with a garage built beneath it. The telegraph messenger then found there were three such housfs in the street, and at none of

ttiem were the occupants at home. flr Holdsworth suggested that the numbering of houses in Taupo streets, as in other tofwns, would |e a great help in postal and telegraphic deliveries, especially in View of the number of people who occupied houses temporarily.. pThe Mayor, Mr J. E. Story, to jtohom the "Times" mentioned the ahatter, stated that he th'ought it \ good idea, and that, even wher* there were sections in a street not ifet built on, no difficulty would be experienced, as numbers would be illotted to each section. His Worship said that the matter would :ome before the next meeting of ;he Borough Council. j