OUR “LOVELY” MAIL SERVICE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3597, 9 August 1912, Page 7

OUR “LOVELY” MAIL SERVICE.

(TO TITE EDITOR. )

Sir, —The running—or rather want of running—and general casualness ot the ferry service between here and Napier has, 1 think, just about reached the limit. Lately we have been landed with a huge mail about 10 or 11 o’clock on Saturdays, and now it appears as if tho same thing were going to- liappon'oii Thursdays— tho two InUf-days for business places in the week. Gisborne boasts of a population of about ten- thousand people, and has a wealth of hack country to back it up* Its exports are about fourth for the Dominion, and it has in progress all sorts of up-to-date municipal works, and yet the shipping companies appear to think it is only necessary to trot their boats along whenever it suits them, regardless of tho public convenience and the matter of a day or two see?ins neither here nor there. Seeing Plcton and Nelson have a daily ferry service, surely this Coast ought to warrant it? I think it is a matter the Chamber oi Commerce might take up with all the energy they possess. They would be doing far more good to the public than fooling roundi with an all-night telephone or whatever they have been on to lately.—l am, etc., ‘‘FULL UP.”