HILTON AND PLEASANT VALLEY MAIL SERVICE.

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

HILTON AND PLEASANT VALLEY MAIL SERVICE.

TO TUB EDITOR. Sir,—Permit rae through your columns to express my opinion on some of the letters which hare already been written on the subject. I first propose to ! deal with Mr Slack, He expresses astonishment at a large district like the Kakahu having the presumption to propose an alteration in the postal service. Using the words «f a famous writer, " 0, wad iomo power the giftio gie us, I To see oorsel's as ithers see us ; ' It would frao mony a blunder free us, An* foolish notion." The public can easily see where the presumption lies. Such a man as Mr Slack would surely not ask anything but what is just and right. Are we to believe that Mr Slack gets his letters at Geraldine ? If so, why interfere with thei,inhabitants in their mail service? Let.him use Geraldine as aforetime. Wheie does the sho« pinch ? The fact is Mr Slack is doing a good stroke. The Government leave him a private bag/three days a week, and he can also get j his letters any other day be is in Geraldine, a great convenience. Mr Slack will say he is not the only man that can do this. He has a mite, a very heavy man, too ; not much known in public as he is under the same disadvantage as Mr Flack of living in an isolated gully up against the ranges, but he comes to assist in a great work like this, and is useful in his way, no doubt. He informs the public that an influentially representative meeting was held m Gapes' Valley re the postal service, and as far as the public are aware no person seems to have had a word to say but himself. But, notwithstanding, he leads us to believe a great work was done. He states that a counter petition was got up to the one adopted at Hilton. I wish to inform this very clever man that no petition was mentioned At the Hilton meeting. It is a great pity that these men do not furnish themselves with the facts of the case before rushing into print. Referring again to Mr Slack, I cannot help thinking that if he had not put his pen to paper the inhabitants of this district would always have thought he was what he claimed to be, an unselfish public man, and that he was always willing to further the interests of the district, seeing that at present we are likely to have taken a step in the direction ot progress. Coaches are now running thiice weekly between Temuka and Hilton township. Coaches owned by the Bame firm have been successful in promoting the wealth and commercial prosperity of the Geraldine district. My desire is that such men as Mr Slack would slop grumbling and not lend a hand in retarding the prosperity of others. Let us by all oceans get the mails carried by coach from Temuka to Pleasant Valley via Hilton and Gapes' Valley, which is the most direct and natural outlet for this large district.— I am, etc., Kakahu, December 3rd, 1883.