PAPER DELIVERY.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 915, 4 May 1878, Page 2

PAPER DELIVERY.

We have been as much annoyed of late as many of our subscribers have been with the continual complaints of non-delivery of papers, A very efficient and somewhat expensive delivery of foot and mounted runners, to carry the TiaEg into all parts of Waikato early on the morning of publication, has been organised by tho proprietor of this journal. Yet from time to time, first here then there, we learn that the paper has not been received. Enquiries, strictly instituted have led to the re-iterated assertions from the runners that the papers were left as directed. A circumstance wWeU occurred on Thursday, however, has thrown come light on the matter and we are led to believe that in many instances perhapa, the papers thus left at people's doors, or, as only possible in a country delivery inside their gates, have been removed aud laken away bjr passers by. Such a case occurred between Hamilton and the railway station on Thursday where a person was seen and stopped in the act of taking away a pa jer go left, U may not be generally known, but this act i? neither mo|e nor less than larceny and the yery first person, after this notice discovered restoring or taking away addressed copies of ttfl "yY AIKATO Times left at peoples doors or gal£S will be prosecuted to a conviction. We have been at great expense and trouble to organise anA maintain an efficient delivery and arc determined not to spare the next delinquent now fch;»t this explanation of the nature of the offqnpe has been made, The act. as we have said, is larceny and as such we shall prosecute the next offender.