Treaty covers mail service
PA Wellington The rebel King Country postal group says it has been granted permission under what appears to be a little-known covenant of the Treaty of Waitangi to operate a mail service throughout much of New Zealand. New Zealand Post is challenging the rebel service, but a group spokesman, Mr Ross Marshall, yesterday said he had received a document signed by a Mr Glen Williams, signing himself as private secretary to the “United Tribes of New
Zealand” and authorising his mail service. Mr Williams had told him that he had been granted a warrant as the United Tribes’ Courier Service, Solicitors in New Zealand had no recollection or understanding of the act, and it appeared to be a United Kingdom Act, Mr Marshall said. An application by New Zealand Post for an interim injunction against the rebel postal group is due to be heard in the High Court in Hamilton early next month.
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