DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1928, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

POSTAL OFFICER’S TOUR. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 7. Mr Robertson (Assistant Secretary of the Postal Department) is about to visit Australia to inspect and report on postal methods in Sydney and Melbourne, particularly the system of mail carriers for letters and parcels recently installed in Melbourne. This innovation enables postal matter to be carried up to top floor's without handling, and relieves congestion on the ground floor, where mail sorting is now usually carried on.

TELEGRAPH ENGINEERS CONFER WELLINGTON, Get. 7. There will he a conference of telegraph engineers hero next week in pursuance of the Department’s policy of calling its staff together at intervals for the discussion of the latest devices, and inter-change of ideas. BODY FLOATING DOWN RIVER. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. .5. The body of a man was seen floating down the Waimakariri River at White’s Bridge, between 5 and 6 o’clock yesterday evening by a contractor, H.. Farrier, who followed down the river bank for over a mile trying to recover it, but darkness set in. The body was that of a fairly big man. It was dressed in a white singlet, cardigan jacket and' dark trousers. • V The police are searching the lower reaches of the river and adjacent foreshores as the body was probably carried out to sea by 1 the heavy flood in the river last night. PRISON ESCAPEE. WELLINGTON, Oct, 5. Thomas Lowry, an escapee from WiHako Prison, Trentliam, last Friday morning, was recaptured to-day on the edge of the hush a mile away.