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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2550, 26 August 1915, Page 6

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1 ' : ■ ■— V. FEDERAL G.P.O. REPORT OP THE INQUIRY COMMISSIONER By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyTlgfti (Reo. August 25, 10.50 p.m.) Melbourne, August 25. Mr. Robert M'Anderson has presented his report on the inquiry into the Post-master-General's Department. He severely criticises somo of the methods, and says that the most circumlocutory method is the one that seems usually; to bo employed, .and the cost is enormous. As instances:— Officers in adjoining rooms mite-long letters to one another, and even then do not hold direct communication, but through the deputy-postmaster. ' ■ A file relative to a dispute betweentelephonists passed through tho records 203 times, and comprised 539 pages of matter. Repairs to a telephone line, went to 488 pages t and passed through the records 56 times. Ho'says: "This all seems wrong. The Postal Department is in want of ,what is known as business He suggests, amongst many_ other sweeping remedies, the appointment of , b general manager, with wide powers, to make up the deficiency of £501,000, and advocates increased telegraph and telephone rates, a reduction in the commission on the sale of stamps, and an increase in bulk postage rates for news-