THE POST OFFICE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81872, 23 October 1906, Page 2

THE POST OFFICE.

m PQVYER TO STOP UNDESIRABLE s - LITERATURE. ■S INCREASES IN LOW-GRADE i<-' SALARIES. s ' l'er Press Association. ' Wellington,, October 22. '° In moving- the second reading of J n tiw l'osi Oiiice Act Amendment Bill, . : ■ the Postmaster-General (Sir J. G. n _ Uard) explained the provisions for I rs increasing facilities to depositors and ' r '_ enlarging the benefit of the Post Of- ' ■ hce tor the fund, by reducing- post,j , a S« c n books in raised characters, |j fur increasing the Minister's powers j with regard to permitting: letter r boxes, for stopping the mail matter " "f quacks and blackmailers, and for J stopping the operation of \oUteries in relation to the Post, Qrtice. The ac Bill also amended the Post and Tele(.e graph Classification Act by givingcertain deserved increments, running Slum salaries at £llO to £2o(>, Certain amendments dealing with matter going over the telegraph wire would be submitted in another Tfill to be ~'. biought down next day. The in- 1 creases proposed in the 10 classifica- s /■] lion' proposal would amount to £7OOO T rs in the first year, and .£SOOO next v year. Referring to the Pcsi and Tele- s graph Department generally, he d Jt - t|,ougiU he was right in saying- it 1 t was a most excellent service, and J that the increases had been justly , 0 .1 earned. ; v . Mr Mussely, referring to cUu.se io j_ (seizure of immoral literature), '. thought it placf.d extraordinary powu cr in 1 he. hands of, say. an inquisin tiv« postmaster in a country district. It was a power he would not like t° , s give him. l'_ The second reading wa* agreed to ( "on the voices. " " " [ le The P,JI was later j n c .committee and pas^, c i its t h ; rt i re!U i. r e '"&'• J