SERIOUS POSTAL CHARGES.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 July 1917, Page 2

SERIOUS POSTAL CHARGES.

<a. AUTHORITIES' PLAIN DENIAL. By Telegraph.—l'n>s< Association. Auckland, July 12. The charge made by the Rev.'Elliott that circulars convening a Protestant Political Association meeting were tampered with while passing through the Post Office delivery was given an emphatic denial by the postal authorities. The chief postmaster says the charge of envelopes 'being opened, tlie contents abstracted and empty coverp delivered is so absurd as to carry its own denial. Such action would simply invite enquiry. The Rev. Elliott telephoned the postal authorities before the meeting on the subject, and -was informed that a strict enquiry was to be made immediately. A list of addresses had been submitted. The list was not supplied though a second request was made. Such inquiry as was possible otherwise was made, and showed that under the impartial postal system such allegations were utterly unfounded. The submission, of (postal packets to the censor appointed toy the military authorities is one entirely out of the control of the Post Office.