WHATAWHATA.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 355, 18 October 1898, Page 2

WHATAWHATA.

The question of obtaining an improved mail service from Hamilton, through Whatawhata to Raglan, is being generally discussed, and it is felt that two mails a wrek for a service which connects with about half-a-dozen, postal districts is altogether too inconvenient and backward for the times. The adjoiuing district of Tuhikaramea has its tri-weekly mail service, and there is very little doubt that if a petition were signed by the settlers and business people residing between Hamilton and Raglan and forwarded to the postal authorities the change to a tri-weekly service would be obtained. It is rather surprising that Raglati, which is fast coming into prominence as a seaside resort for a large number of Waikato residents, should rest content with a bi-weekly mail, when the necessity for a more frequent and up-to-date service, if only for the convenience of business men and others visiting its cool shores duringthe summer months, is so apparent. However, a move is being made at this end, and, with the assistance of a few energetic Raglan people, the improved mail service should be in existence ere long. Some unfavourable comments are being made ancut the close manner in which the agricultural show authorities seem to be carrying out the matter. For some little time no notices or advertisements have been seen in either Waikato or Auckland papers, and, to make matters more funny, the posters containing the particulars of the prize schedule only arrived in Whatawhata on Saturday last—virtually the day after the entries closed, as the mail leaves here on Friday. Some unpleasant remarks are being made, audit certainly se?ms a strange way of getting up a public exhibition, which is to take place in a few days from now. —(Own Correspoudant).