POSTAL SERVICE AT HILTON.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1182, 4 December 1883, Page 3

POSTAL SERVICE AT HILTON.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, Hating taken part in the meeting recently held at Kakahu, re the-proposed change in the mail service, I would like, with your permission, to .say a few words in reply to the supreme / indignation expressed thereat by your '♦;' correspondents. Mr Black say* he is "surprised at the " presumption " of the people of Hilton desirin g any alteration in ;*• *the proposed service. I suppose the residents have a perfect right when opportunity offers to advance their own interests, more especially when by doing , so the convenience of our neighbors ' would not be materially interfered with. I fail to see what Mr Slack would haye • to complain of if the mail service was chunged as proposed at the public meet-; ing. Letters would be delivered .-at his 'house three days a week as at present—perhapß, sometimes a few hours earlier [: , in the day and sometimes a little later. If myself and my neighbors living below • i Hilton had such accommodation, we * should* have good reason to be satisfied. As it is, we have to look pleasant and ride to Winchester or Temuka,; a distance of five and seven miles respectively, to get our letters and papers if we want them, Mr Slack cannot be sincere when he says that' nine out of ten of "our" letters come from the north, nor is he happy, I think, in .his t allusion to the loss the residents of . • Geraldine wouh) sustain by the change. ' Possibly, Mr Slack's correspondence may. principally come from the north, but I look upon Timaru as " our " (the people's) place of business in South •>. Canterbury', hence ' nine out of ten of " cur "letters come most decidedly from the "south." I should, therefore, con" sider Temuka the most direct office of • delivery; and Hilton the most convenient route. In conclusion with this business, - ,i lam sorry the recent meeting was not publicly notified in the papers, then Mr Slack and everyone else interested would hart bad an opportunity of expressing an

opinion at the proper time and place. This I should have done, bat I was assured thallMr Slack was not opposed to the change we wished for, and I concluded the other residents in Pleasant Valley and Gapes' Valley would not object.—l km, etc., • John Kbllanp. Kakahq, December Ist, 1883.