EMPHATIC DENIAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 12 July 1917, Page 7

EMPHATIC DENIAL

OF ALLEGATIONS' AGAINST

POST OFFICE

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION

AUCKLAND, July 12. A charge made by the Rev. Howard Elliott that circulars convening a Protestant Political Association meeting were tampered with when passing through the post office delivery is given an emphatic denial by the postal authorities. The Chief Postmaster says the charge of envelopes being opened, the contents abstracted, and the empty covers delivered is so absurd as to carry its own denial. Such action would simply invite enquiry. Mr Elliott telephoned to the postal authorities before the meeting on the subject, and was informed that strict enquiry would be made immediately a list of addresses was submitted, but a list \\ as not supplied though a second request was made. Such enquiry as was possible otherwise was made, and showed that under the impartial postal system such allegations were ■utterly unfounded. The submission of postal packets to a censor appointed by the military authorities is one entirely out 01 the control of the pest office.'