The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette Published Daily. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1896. A CONFIDING PUBLIC.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 148, 22 December 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette Published Daily. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1896. A CONFIDING PUBLIC.

«. The postal authorities have issued a special notice cautioning the public against sending money or valuables in unregistered letters. Notwithstanding this warning money continues to be sent by post in unregistered letters and frequently ia the most careless manner. It will hardly be credited by people who are careful in such matters that it is a common thing to find in the post-office letters crammed full with bank-notes, very often ia the flimsiest of covers. Frequently the contents protrude from the envelopes, or are found loose in the mail-bags, having burst their envelopes, and frequently letters filled with notes are carelessly thrown loose into railway vans for the guard to deliver with tbe mails. Many other cases could be instanced of carelessness on the part of the public v in sending money by post. It often happens that letters containing money are alleged to have been lost in the post office but it has frequently been proved beyond doubt that such letters were either not posted at all, or were either mislaid or lost after having been duly delivered. Wheu an unregistered money lettei, said to have been sent by post, is reported missing, it may happen that undeserved suspicion is cast on every one concerned, viz., on the person supposed to have posted the letter, the officers of the post office through whose hands the letter would pass, | and tbe person who would in ordinary I course receive the letter from the post office either from a street door letter box, a private letter box, over the post office counter, or from the bands of a letter carrier. No record is kept of j unregistered letters, and persons who j post such letters containing money I expose to temptation everyone through whose hands tbey. may pass, and in i ! tbe event of non-delivery suspicion is cast on many innocent persons. The public are therefore earnestly requested to register all letters containing money or valuables intended te be sent by post, the£ee for such registration being a mere trifle as compared with th_ advantages oi absolute safety and certainty of delivery to tho proper person.