[?]e Case of the Lying Post Box

Lying Post Box

VERY cross Mr. H. R. Nisbet bas complained about the way mail is handled —or not handled some parts of Papua-New lea. i says that the mail notice on posting box in Lae, for instance, not mean what it says, le evening in May he posted a r to his wife in Wau expecting be cleared at the next 8 a.m., ;ated on the box. deal involving £6,000 hinged on letter so next morning he raphed his wife to collect it. jver, Mrs. Nisbet received no ', and Mr. Nisbet, very wroth, ed the Lae post-office, wording to Mr. Nisbet, he was that when the drop box is full there is not sufficient time to all the mail into bags and get vay on aircraft, what is left ins until next time. Not very orting when the matter is it.

Nisbet says that he has been ears in the Territory, and fore is reasonably tolerant— ;hat he is not as tolerant as parently expected by the P-NG and Telegraphs Dept, to-day.

J High Commissioner of W a, Mr. G. R. Powles, returned June from an official visit to where he has had consulta with the New Zealand Govern mainly on the proposed con ional changes in the Samoan mment and the relative ation to be considered by the Zealand Parliament during its it session.