POST OFFICE LIMITATION.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 November 1913, Page 2

POST OFFICE LIMITATION.

Eur once, the New Zealand Post Office has been laced with mure than it cares to undertake. Lt has declined to have a '7-vear-old boy posted. Such postages are mado and carried ihrough in England -and unless we mistake there hits been at least one instance iu the New Zealand Postal Department but at present (he department is unwilling to undertake the responsibility. .\n application was made in Levin, some ten days ago, :for a quotation of postal charges on a 7-year-old boy frmo Moana (Lake Brunner) to Levin. The sequel is set out'in, the official reply, as under:---Levin, 24tli Nov., UH-'i. Dear Sir,—-lil reply to your inquiries regarding transmission per medium of Post Office of a boy from Moana to Levin : I am directed to advise you that the department cannot see its way to undertake the proposal.—Yours faithfully, H. H. Cork, Postmaster.