BRITISH POST OFFICE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 81, 17 January 1936, Page 6

BRITISH POST OFFICE.

A DIPLOMAT'S TRIBUTE. FACTOR IN WORLD RECOVERY. ftjnited Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, Jan., 16. The General Post Office was described b V the Belgian Ambassador at London (Baronde Marchienne) as an organisation that is the envy and admiration of the whole world. In a, speech after presenting the awards recently made to Hie Post Office unit at the International Film Festival at Brussels, he said that he had wandered through many countries in his diplomatic career; but nowhere had he found, such an excellent postal, telegraph, and telephone service as in Britain. The ability of the staff to trace obscure persons hidden behind faulty addresses was admirable, if rather uncanny. The remarkable development of postal and' telegraphic communications in Britain in the last few years, said the Baron, had no doubt contributed greatly to the economic recovery which appeared to be spreading slowly but surely throughout the world and which had already reached' in the United Kingdom a stage which called for the admiration and gratification of all other nations.—British Official Wireless.