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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 665, 29 September 1891, Page 2

Many of our readers will be pleased at the following paragraph sent by our Melbourne correspondent : —I hear upon excellent authority that notes are passing between the Governments of all the Australian colonies, with a view of putting an end to’ the “consultation” or “sweep system ” by the simultaneous closing of all post offices against their circulars and correspondence. No post office orders will be issued in their favor, nor paid to them if accidentally granted. No registered letters will be accepted from them, nor delivered to them, and they will be wholly excluded from the benefits of the postal system. Of course the local parliaments will have to sanction these drastic proceedings, but no difficulty is expected in that quarter. The fact that the New South Wales post office delivered 350,000 registered letters to sweep promoters last year, and that the same sweep promoters this year ask for /670,00 c has convinced the legislators of all colonies alike that instant attention is imperatively necessary.