RURAL POSTAL SERVICE.
AMENDED SCHEME PROPOSED. By Telegrapb.— Association Dannevirke, July 8. According to information supplied to Mr. A. McNicol, M.P.. by the Hon. J. G. Coates, P-ostmaster-Gflneral, his department is contemplating important changes in the system of deliveries. The present method is unsatisfactory because it involves settlers in outlying districts in heavy cost. It was found that some settlers took the benefits of the delivery, but allowed their neighbors to pay. The department found this both expensive and unsatisfactory, and was considering a scheme that would institute a uniform’rate throughout? - New Zealand. This would relieve the burden on the back-blocks settlers and place the rural mail delivery somewhat on the same level as post office boxes in towns.
Mr. Coates stated that a study of rural mail deliveries in other countries showed that they all had unsatisfactory features and involved heavy expenditure. What was proposed in New Zealand was quite new. He hoped shortly to make an official statement that would fully •KalaiA.jUM soheme.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1921, Page 7
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165RURAL POSTAL SERVICE. Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1921, Page 7
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