New Zealand postmasters are freely exercising their right to open parcels and unfold newspapers in search of enclosed letters (says the Dunedin Star). The higher postal rates now in force constitute a temptation to evade the regulations by this form of smuggling. This is known, and the remedy is known. Now and again the officials have always opened and examined parcels and newspapers ■whenever suspicion was aroused. Of late these examinations have been frequent, and not without cause, if it be true, as rumored, that in a certain Otago town 240 inserted letters were brought to light in one haul.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1922, Page 12
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