"NUMBER YOUR HOUSE"

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3022, 8 March 1917, Page 4

"NUMBER YOUR HOUSE"

POSTAL AUTHORITIES TAKE ACTION.

In normal times the officers of the Post Office may have lime to look round and locate a person whos.e- address on an envelope or a parcel is more or less vaguely sot out. Indeed, on occasions the Post Office lias achieved much credit for tho manner in which they have- upon ahle to deliver correspondence'on tho slenderest "of clues as to tho address of tho person for whom the missive was intended. This is war time, however, andjiroDablv no Government Department has been more hard hit than the Post Office bv the demands made not onlv for active service, but for postal merii iriro* loss experts, and -telegraphists in connection with our crcat' armies in jar* ious parts 'of the world, and 110. cry for exemption has eono forth. Now UoESycr, the Department cannot aSbrcl to keep men to fossick out people, and in regard ..to addresses it is insisting that they shall include- tho number oj tho house, which, in turn, will require that all householders must see that thoir numbers are placed in a position where, they, will bo readily seen by the postman. A'circular on iho point has neon sent nnt to householders in Wellington. Tim new scheme will opwjje from April 1. •