POST OFFICE ORDERS FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11496, 31 January 1903, Page 9

POST OFFICE ORDERS FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

TO THE EDITOR 07 THE PRESS. Sir, —I should be glad if you would print the following in your paper as being tun example of the treatment accorded us by the ftew Zealand postal authorities. A post office order was sent me from ChrLstchurch on 24th May last, drawn on Johannesburg, and was presented for payment at that office about the middle of July, and returned unpaid, marked "No advioe." Since that time it ha« been presented at intervals, about half a dozen times, and returned on each occasion with the came answer. In the middle of September, however, the reason for non-payment was oltered to " Out of date." I fail to understand this, cc it is clearly stated on the order that it is current for twelve months. I can only put the matter down to the negligence of the Postal Department, who have evidently failed to advise Johannesburg Post Office of the isfcue of the order, and have also not taken into consideration the fact that a post office order in the Transvaal becomes void four months after issue. The public might do well, when remitting money to South Africa, to db so through a bank, thus avoiding the dtelay and inoonvenienoe occasioned by the carelessness of the postal authorities.—-Yours, etc., WALTER DUKKLEY. Bloemfontein, December Bth, 1902. [In reference to this complaint the Chief Postmaster at Christehureh expressed to a " Press " representative yesterday that ordere on Johftnneeburg ieeued in Christchureh, are cent on to Wellington, and by that office listed, and sent on to their destination by the first steamer. When there is no direct steamer to the Cape the orders are sent via Melbourne, as eteamers leave there for South Africa at least once a month. The orders are sent to Capetown, and from there distributed to the various offices of payment. This particular order was duly ■forwarded in the usual manner to South Africa, and the New Zealand Poet Office authorities are not to blame in any way, as they have no control over the duplicate orders when they leave New Zealand.—Ed. "The Prees. ,, ]