A TWO-DAY POST.
To the Editor. Sir, —I have been .puzzling over the old saying, "What's in a ncime?" and I find from Xew Plymouth to Opunake we have three "moto's" Moto-roa, 0-moto (Omata), and Rahotu, of '"Ramoto," and, I Relieve, the prophetic Maori saw the coming' of petroleum and the so-called motor displacing the horse. Tint this "will never get me on about the anomaly of letting the old coach leave the Xe.v Plymouth post office daily at P. 30 jum., taking newspapers, and omitting to iouch our letters, which seem to be kept until 2.30 p.m. for a pet client, and it usually ends so. At 4.30, I go to the post office—the mail will be late! The old woman has the usual thirst for news, and she digs me out next morning at 8 a.m. to go for yesterday's letters, and so it goes on.. I suggest that the mail should leave at 9.30 a.m. as heretofore, and if the coach breaks down there will still be time. The steamer from Auckland is travelling all night to hurry on our news. Bakers get up at 3 a.m. to have bread fresh for breakfast, and yet we seem retrograding.—l am, etc., STALE XEWS. Okato, June 7.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 52, 10 June 1910, Page 2
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208A TWO-DAY POST. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 52, 10 June 1910, Page 2
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