ILLEGAL BUSINESS.
POST OEITGE STOPS DELIVERY.
(By Telegraph.—Own Cocrasponaent.>
WELLINGTON,- this day. Not a few New Zealanders,,including residents in Wellington,; are in correspondence 'with medical firms, in Melbourne and Sydney which advertise certain specialities, and doubtless these correspondents have wondered why no reply has been received. They will, perhaps, be surprised to learn that the Post-master-General of New South Wales has refused to forward matter to certain addresses in. the .official reason given being that there are reasonable grounds for supposing that the persons concerned were engaged "in receiving" money in connection with "a fraudulent and immoral business'',:within the mean.ing of section 57 of the Post and Tele-r graph Act of 1901. /This power of prohibition was testedf'in the High Court, and the official edict was upheld. As a result, correspondence, . which includes packages containing clinical samples, is being returned to: New Zealand, the clmlical samples being destroyed at this end, and some of the correspondence is meeting the same fate.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 87, 11 April 1906, Page 5
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161ILLEGAL BUSINESS. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 87, 11 April 1906, Page 5
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