POST OFFICE FOR PITCAIRN ISLAND
NEW ZEALAND AGENCY Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. The Postmaster-General, the Hon. W. Nosworthy, announces that a postal agency of New Zealand has been established at Pitcairn Island. Before the establishment of the agency the islanders had only very primitive postal facilities, having no post office or postage stamps. They were in the habit of handing their mail matter, without postage, to the captains of passing steamers. Some countries, however, declined to admit such letters free of charge, and the addressees were accordingly called upon to pay double postage. The establishment of an office at Pitcairn Island was urgently needed, but it was a little difficult at first to decide by whom it should be set up. The island is under the jurisdiction of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, and it vras by arrangement with him that New Zealand established the agency.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 118, 9 August 1927, Page 11
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