LETTER FROM CHIEF POSTMASTER

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 6, 1 August 1951, Page 7

LETTER FROM CHIEF POSTMASTER

LITERATURE TO SEAMENS RESTS Chief Post Office, Wellington, 7th May, 1951. The Secretary, W’elhngton District Executive, Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Pear Madam, In reference to your letter of 27th April, concerning parcels of used magazines and papers addressed to Seamen’s Rests at New Plymouth and rimaru, I have to inform you that tingle copie* of newspapers addressed to the Manager, Librarian •r other person having the charge of any New Zealand Fret Reading Room, Sailors’ Rest, or Charitable Institution, which has been authored to receive newspapers free of postage, or addressed to Lightkeepers, are permitted to pass through the Post Office FREE. If d’rected to the care of an Officer or to a name at the Institution, they will be treated as ordinary newspapers. Not more than one copy of any issue of a newspaper intended for free transmission will be for-

warded to the same address free of charge. If more than one is posted, not prepaid with postage, the normal charge will he made for each extra newspaper enclosed. Books addressed to Lightkeepers, however, can he sent within New Zealand at the rate of Id. for eaUi K ounces or fraction thereof, up to a maximum weight of 5 lbs. The Seamen’s Rests at New Plymouth and Timaru are included in the list of Institutions to which single copies of newspapers may be forwarded free of postage. Parcels of magazines or books, however, may not be forwarded free of postage to any institution whatsoever. Yours faithfully, (Signed) T F. THORNTON, Chief Postmaster.