Post Office "Muddling"

Letter to the Editor.

THE recent Post Office mix-ups men tioned in the “P.1.M.” have made me bold to write of the following which happened in the Solomons at the end of February. During the last week of the month, among other mail I sent to Tulagi, was a letter to my brother in England. About the middle of March that letter came back to me here among other mail collected from the Tulagi Post Office. The man who delivered the mail said that at least two other people to his knowledge had had letters re turned from the same P.O. recently, that they themselves had originally written.

One wonders at the mentality of even native clerks in the P.O. who cannot dis tinguish between England and 8.5.1..

The following happened about nine years ago. In April, the District Officer of Guadalcanar came on his usual tax collecting and Government business rounds. For some business I transacted he had not the relevant papers with him; so, he said he would despatch them to me immediately he arrived back at Aola, the Government Station, 60 miles away.

Nothing arrived for over three months.

When the D.O. called again, at the end of July, I asked him about the papers.

“Papers?” he said, “I posted them to you via Tulagi the day after I left here in April,”

A mail came along in the middle of September containing the belated O.H.M.S. letter endorsed “Mis-sent to New York Post Office, U.S.A.”!

I am, etc.,

Efficiency.

Guadalcanal 8.5.1.

Messrs. Colyer, Watson and Co., Rabaul, has now been registered in New Guinea as a limited company under the name of Colyer Watson (New Guinea), Limited.

Mr. G. W. Spensely is a director, and Mr.

W. J. Evans is managing the affairs of the company.