ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH STATIONS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 28, 15 July 1867, Page 3

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH STATIONS.

We learn from an advertisement in the Wellington papers that It is the intention of the Government 13 erect a telegraph station .at Fcatherston; and we have been informed that a motion either has or will be made for the production of any correspondence which h:is taken place relative to the establishment of Telegraph Stations in the Wairarapa. When this correspondence is produced we shall be able to ascertain why the first station is to be erected there in preference to a-more central position. If only two stations are to be erected probably Featherston and Masterton should have the preference, but if only one—and one would be sufficient at the outset—most certainly Grey town should be the place. The following remarks from the “ Advertiser” are to the G-pose. Our contemporary says "We ieve it is the intention of the General Government to erect Telegraph Stations at Fcatherston and Masterton in the Wairarapa, thus leaving Greytown, the most populous and central township in the district, without one. ‘At present it is difficult to see in what way the telegraph extension will benefit the settlers of Wairarapa, at all events while the present rapid postal communication is kept up, hut there is no question that if a station must be erected, and expense incurred, the residents in <he principal township should not be debarred, t# they, now virtually will be, from deriving jiftrae benefit Corn the line. So far as we are enabled to judge, one station would be sufficient, and .that should be established at Gteytowxu. •

Since the above was in type we have received two letters on the subject, one of which appears in another column. From the other we extract the following : “ If a Telegraph will even be self-support-ing at Featherston it would yield a revenue at G-reytown, and that, therefore, the latter is, under any circumstances, entitled to an office. We should like to know the kind of information under which offices are established. A return of all stations established, by whom recommended, and the income of each with cost of maintenance, would, doubtless, be very interesting and instractive.” We need hardly tell the Government that the Colony cannot afford waste through maladministration of the Telegraph Office or any other department.