POSTAL INQUIRY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12087, 16 August 1917, Page 4

POSTAL INQUIRY.

THE AUCKLAND COMMISSION. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, August 15. The powers of the Commission set up to inquire into certain charges against tho officers of the Auckland Post Office have been extended to include power to inquire:— (a) Whether correspondence addressed "to post office Box No. 912 at Auckland has been corruptly or improperly suppressed or detained by the officers of the post office. (b) On what grounds the military censorship has been established over the correspondence of the persons using the said post office box. His Excellency's warrant proceed,?:— I do hereby further direct and declare that nothing in the eaid warrant of July 25, 1917, or in this present warrant shall so operate or be so construed as to authorise any inquiry into the establishment, organisation, authority or practice of the system of military censorship existing in this Dominion during tno present war, save so far as any such matters being relevant to the inquiry authorised by the said warrants may be voluntarily and with due authority disclosed by the.officers of the said censorship in the course of that inquiry. and save also the inquiry hereinbefore- expressly authorised as to the grounds on which such military censorship has been established over' the correspondence of the persons using tho post office box aforesaid.