THE POLAR POST OFFICE.
"NO COMPLICATIONS." (BY TELEGRAPH.—-OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Christchurch, Thursday. ' * jso Imperial or foreign, complications have %meri as the result of our permitting Lieutenant Shackleton to establish a post office • «L King Edward VII. Land, the I rime Minister slated laughingly to a newspaper representative to-day. or c 0 J in * there will be any trouble. It is ridiculous to suppose that thero should be. There is no one governing those cool latitudes, and New Zealand has as much right as any country to grant temporary facilities. It Prance or Germany sent expeditions down there, 110 one could reasonably object to their establishing post offices during tie s ay Of their people. It was a compliment that no one could take exception to our paying, %nd none can say it was not deserved.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13649, 17 January 1908, Page 5
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134THE POLAR POST OFFICE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13649, 17 January 1908, Page 5
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