LICENSE LITERATURE.

Evening Star, Issue 12101, 6 November 1908, Page 7

LICENSE LITERATURE.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. [Special to the Stab.] CHRISTCHURCH, November 6. In an interview the Rev. L. M. Isitt said, as the postal officials stated that it would take from four to seven days to deliver the Licensed Victuallers’ Association’s packages, and as the Liquor party stipulated that their literature should not be despatched by the postal authorities before November 6, it was clear that the party intended that delivery should not be completed before November 12 or 13. “If is obvkras to all,” he adds, ‘"that this arrangement vfill give a very unfair advantage to the party with whom the arrangement is made, as any other literature posted about the same date must take sscund place to the liquor trade’s literature, and probably will not be delivered at all before polling time.” Mr Isitt regards the arrangement as a distinct violation of ordinary post office procedure. He admits that it might be winked at when it deals with the despatch of tradesmen’s circulars, but he maintains that where a great moral conflict is concerned the use of the post office and the postal officials ir this way is intolerable. The Christchurch post office authorifes state that they will send out the Licensed Victuallers’ Association’s circulars to-day, in accordance with the agreement. TheL are about 100,000 of them. A communication received from the head office in Wellington states that there rapid bo no objection to making arrangements for delivering large numbers of circulars on a date in advance of the day on which they are sent to the office. The authorities also state that it would be impossible to deal with 100,000 circulars in one day, and that if it is desired to deliver them on a certain day, they must be forwarded to the office some days previously. The stamping, sorting, and other work take up a great deal of lime. It is the custom to adopt the course that is now being followed.