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New Zealand Tablet, 15 May 1913, Page 34

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Held Over Owing to extreme pressure on our space an interesting and important communication from his Grace the Archbishop of Hobart—which came to hand just as we go to press—on the attitute of Tasmanian Catholics towards the Bible-in-schools system, and a quantity of other matter are unavoidably held over. The Member for Derry In the course of an interesting and otherwise accurate and well-written article on Home Rule Problems' the A shburton Guardian of May 6 falls into one error, presumably accidental. It says, 'Referring to the fact that at a recent by-election" in Derry a Catholic had been returned at the head of the poll,' etc. The word ' Catholic' must . surely be a slip of the pen for Protestant.' Mr. R. Hogg, the lately elected M.P. for Derry, is a good Presbyterian. Delivery of the « Tablet ' A number of complaints from various sources have lately reached us in regard to late delivery of the N.Z. Tablet, a, lateness for which the postal department was entirely responsible and for which it —so far as this office is concerned—wholly without excuse. We ask our subscribers to carefully note and remember that every subscriber's copy of the paper sent from this office is posted without fail on Wednesday night, and ; should reach its destination by the first mail despatched from Dunedin on Thursday morning. If a paper arrives by any later mail it is entirely due to delay in transit. The office may be occasionally responsible for the accidental omission to send a subscriber's copy of the paper, but for its late arrival the office is never responsible. Inquiries made at the Dunedin mail-room in connection with the recent complaints elicited the statement that the arrival of an English mail and the largely increased "number of Tablets which have now to be handled had been the cause of the delay. If that is a correct account of the position it is clearly desirable that the sorting staff should be immediately strengthened, and given a fair chance to cope with the work that is put upon them. Official complaint has been made by us to the Chief Postmaster, Dunedin; and that officer, after, looking into the matter, assures us that strict instructions have been given that in;future all Tablets are to be sorted

without fail. on Wednesday night. That is as it ought to be. The N.Z. Tablet - has easily , the , largest ' post office "circulation of any paper, in the Dominion ; and the least /return we are entitled-, to expect for the. handsome ; revenue. which we contribute to the postal department ,is reasonable efficiency and expedition in the despatch of ; the paper.' We will be glad if subscribers who may experience delay in receiving their paper will at once communicate with: us, and in. doing so bo careful, oh this as on all other occasions when communicating with us, to furnish us with their full postal address.