Burial of Pensioners.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1938, Page 4

Burial of Pensioners.

■Following a complaint made by four Rotorua clergymen to the Waikato Hospital Board regarding alleged unfeeling and haste in the conduct of burials of old age pensioners and the burial of one pensioner in a coffin which bore no name-plate or other means of identification, a Hamilton Press Association message states, a special Rotorua visiting committee reported yesterday on the question. Ilappeared that an interview with a local undertaker showed that it was due to a misunderstanding that no nameplates were provided. The matter would be rectified in future. Commenting on the publicity given the matter in the Press, Mr F. Findlay remarked that he had received a cutting from an Australian paper in which considerable prominence was given to the letter of complaint from the Rotorua clergymen. Short-paid Postage.

Notwithstanding the publicity that has been given to the new overseas postage rates which came into operation on July 26, the Post Office reports that a high proportion of correspondence is still being prepaid at the old rates. It is reiterated that the letter postage rate to all British countries and Egypt is now lid each halfounce. Australia is excepted from this increase until the trans-Tasman air service operated. The postage rate to all foreign countries, including the United States of America, is 2£d for the first ounce and ljd for each succeeding ounce. It is the universal practice of the Post Office when letters are short paid to tax them double the deficiency; and it is suggested that the public make themselves acquainted with the new postage rates and so avoid embarrassment to themselves or their correspondents.