SERIOUS ALLEGATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1917, Page 5

SERIOUS ALLEGATION.

AGAINST POST OFFICE INTEGRITY. ', Auckland, July 11. ' Allegations regarding tho postal sef* ~ vkf 'ivero made by the Row Howard.'El. ';, liptt in tho course of a speech at a •! meeting of the Protestant Political As* '«.. sociatioii. He stated there had been aa-' ,5 attempt to stifle the meeting, alleging '/*S that it had revealed corruption in the ' , A ; postal service. Envelopes which had eontainod an invitation to tho meeting ljadi ■ he declared, been opened, and the cos- '!a tents abstracted. He knew of letters so j| posted and delivered emptv. Other lot- '."a ters posted in duo time had not yet been delivered. Tickets and notices of tha ,;\ meeting sent to Protestant clergy and ' J posted in time for delivery last Satur- * day were, he assented, hold up iby-.the military censor till Monday, go that fa in Protestant churches last Sunday nasn- >_<j nouncement of the* meeting could be '''*} made. During the city council elections ' J censorship our Protestant Vigilance Com- !y| mittees' letters had been carried out ■ il entirely in the interest of the Roman • --,j Catholics. He read letters which he as- ■ J jserted had been stopped in the post. :\'A The chairman (the Rev. Prinaipal Gar- '\4 land) said that the'charge made- by Rev. >• Elliott against the Poßt Office w« tho '_,} most serious charge that h?,d been miie.'fo in the meeting that night. Ho hoped that Mr. Elliott was certain he rtjuH .'«*;« prove his statement. '-'vA Mr. Elliott (chairman): "I hope that *H tho postmaster will hear what has been ;' f M said here to-night, and he will t*k» t.>| Nproceedings against Mr. Elliott, for wtt.are not men if we can sit quietly down' *is| here and believe that this is the cotidfj '-ijS tion in our poet office which we ucliew /-,;! to 'he above suspicion and tako no t M~'i,;M tion and submit to it." "'^jj