MAIL CLOSING AT KUMARA.

Grey River Argus, 11 May 1943, Page 4

MAIL CLOSING AT KUMARA.

[To the Editor]

Dear Sir, —One does not wish to criticise the public services, but of late Kumara has suffered many restrictions and cuts, practically without a murmur. Matters of vital interest, particularly; in a working community, are shorn of their usefulness by regulation and cuts which are deemed quite unnecessary by the public- The latest knock back started this (Monday) morning when the one mail a day is closed at 7.15 a.m. instead of 8.30 a.m. a's formerly. People who used to post their letters, or give them to men going to work before 8 a.m. to post will now find the- workers too late for the mail. Much of the correspondence from Dillmanstown is brought down every - morning by men going to work through Kumara. Now most local people will have to go out, perhaps late at night to get their mail posted, whereas the 8.30 a.m. closing allowed people to send their children in the morning to post the mail. There appears really no valid reason to change from the 8.30 a.m. closing as the mail bus does not go to the train till 9 a.m. I am, etc.. “INTERESTED.”