PUBLIC MEETING AT GREENDALE.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 380, 31 August 1875, Page 3

PUBLIC MEETING AT GREENDALE.

At a public meeting held in the schoolroom, Greendale district school, August 24th, at which, on the motion of Mr W. White, M.P.C., Mr Jarces Gough was moved to the chair, the following draft of a petition to the Chief Postmaster was unanimously adopted and signed by the meeting : " To J. J. Fitzgibbon; Esq, " Chief Postmaster of Canterbury, " Christchurch, N.Z. " The humble petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the Greendale postal district, in the province of Canterbury, respectfully sheweth—- " 1. That your petitioners have at present the advantage of a weekly mail with the Chief Post Office on Saturdays. "2. That the establishment of a bi-weekly mail is urgently required to meet the wants of our postal district. "3. That by taking advantage of the recently established railway communication with Whitecliffs, the cost of maintaining a bi-weekly mail need not exceed the cost of the present weekly one via Dunsßndcl. " i. We are confident that a large increase of correspondence would ensue from the establishment of a bi-weekly mail in our district, and that a valuable boon would be accorded to us in respect to the local newspapers, as many residents would - take in daily papers, which, passing through the Post Office, would contribute to revenue, whereas at present we are shut up to a weekly paper which does not pass through the Post Office. " 5. The number of letters hitherto posted at ou'r local office affords no adequate criterion of the correspondence emanating from our district, in as much as the urgency j of our correspondence, oftener than other- ; wise, compels us, at great personal incon- : venience to send our letters to be posted at distant offices where they shall have speedier transit. "6. We would not be found to set up any invidious comparisons, but if the occasion required, it might be shown that there are postal districts whose requirements are not greater than our own. already in possession of the boon we now pray for. "7. In conclusion, we respectfully request you will be good enough to lay our humble petition before the Postmaster General in time to be considered with reference to the postal arrangements for the ensuing year and included in them. " And your petitioners &c, will ever pray." The meeting next proceeded to condider certain matters submitted by Mr White as chairman of the public library committee. Thedifficulty of getting substantially bound books from Christchurch having been discussed at length and generally deplored, amotion carried to the effect that it is inexpedient to buy books for the public library of less substantial binding than those obtained by the Government from England last year, and as it appears none such are to had from the Christchurch booksellers, books to the value of the money in hand, £3O to £4O, be ordered from England through the Government. An amendment was subsequently carried to the effect that if £ls worth can he selected from the books now in the Government depot, the balance be expended in the purchase of books at some of the local booksellers. Messrs White, J. Gough, T. W. Adams, and Robert Mauro, were appointed a subcommittee, with full powers to carry out the foregoiug resolutions.