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Collaroy Merriwa
Augst. 7. 1850.
My dear Sir,
Many thanks for your communication
about the Post - I only returned home
yesterday & lose no time in replying to it -
Your substitute for my place will play
the very deuce if you [scribble] will allow me to
use a homely phrase - & I will tell you why -
You will deprive all the lower Namoi of
postal communication with Tamworth within
the metropolis of the District - & the whole
country between Tamwork & Carrol of postal
communication altogether-. You must indeed
leave matters as they are rather than make
this change-. But I hope for will give
us the post I ask for -. it is paid for
by the assessment Fund - & if every schilling
were spent in post offices I should not
complain - At present, the whole country
between Namoi & McIntyre is without
a post except the direct line to Cullandon [sic]
by Warialda - & by establishing the line
I ask for will connect all the great rivers
of this North Western District - This
Namoi, Gwyder, Big River, McIntyre
Barwin .... [sic] There are sad complaints
about the Wee Waa mail - the postman