FEDERAL POSTMASTER-GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2720, 15 March 1916, Page 6

FEDERAL POSTMASTER-GENERAL

INTERVIEWED AT WANGANUI,

By Telegraph-Press Association. . ■ Wanganul, March 14. The Hon. Wm. Webster, Postmaster General of the Commonwealth of Auscralia, has arrived in Wanganui Irorn Auckland. via the river 1 route. . Mr. Webster landed at Auckland on February 21, and went straight, on to Wei. lington, where ho spent a week, Btudvmg postal "methods there. He the'u went to "Christchurch. and back to Auck. land, and returns from here to Wellington, leaving for Australia at tha £nd of the week. _ Mr. Webster's visit Co Sew Zealand is for the purpose of examining the postal services of tha Dominion, with a view to adapting som® °£our methods ?3 "The Commonwealth, wflbre postal matters ar6 apparently in a jbmote jjwing to different States clashing with one another and preventing all idea of uniformity. A? the result of his investigation, Mr. Webster states that he willi certainly venture to adopt some of the features of the "New Zea and postal service in the Common, wealth. Others, however, would not be suitable. The office accommodation "l -J" e j! ln 6kon, the co-ordination of staff, light, and - ventilation, and the airy conditions in which the employees worked, and the characteristics of the service, greatly impressed him. and reflected very great credit on the Secretary of the Post Office, Mr. Morris, who had evidently had a big share in securing such conditions. The stamp-selling device in Wellington and Auckland was, Mr. Webster thought, the best he had seen. The features of the administration in the correspondence branch he could very well adopt, whilst the telegraphic operating-room in Wellington was tho finest he had ever seen. The test-board was also very much ahead of anything ho had previously viewed, whilst the system o( folding and delivering telegrams com. mended itself to his mind from an economic standpoint. The fact that *in the New Zealand service they manufactured their own furniture fittings and equipment for the offices was another matter that, Mr. Webster made inquiry into. He is taking plans and estimated _ costs, witli a view to the consideration of the adoption of a gen« oral system for Australia.