POST OFFICE.

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 11, 18 September 1841, Page 2

POST OFFICE.

We have received several letters, complaining of the irregularity in the delivery of our papers, and Government Gazettes, to our subscribers in the Bay of Islands, which have been forwarded through the Post Office. Mr. H. Thompson, of the Bay, has also called upon us, making a similar complaint. We have made inquIry of the Post Master, and are informed that the papers which are sent to the Post Office here for the Bay, are regularly forwarded by each Mail to the Postmaster at Kororarika, therefore we hope it will be ascertained through whose negligence this irregularity is occasioned. We can assure our subscribers that, every Saturday, our papers are directed to, and delivered at the Post Office, for their various destinations. We therefore hope that this notice will be sufficient to remedy the complaint, otherwise we shall not let the matter rest here, but complain to the higher authorities, as we are determined that our subscribers shall not be inconvenienced in this manner; and, for their information, we publish the following section of the "Post Office Act," issued by Colonel Maberly, Secretary to the Post Master General : "CAUTION TO POSTMASTERS, Sub-Postmasters, or others employed in the Post Office, February, 1841. The complaints on the subject of missing newspapers, stated to have been committed to the post, continue to be so numerous, that his lordship thinks it expedient that every one engaged in the Post Office service, should be made acquainted with the 32nd section of the Act 1st Vic, cap. 36, by which it is provided, "That every person employed in the Post Office who shall steal, or shall secret, or destroy, or shall wilfully detain [?] in course of conveyance or delivery thereof by the [????] without covers or in covers

open at the sides, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall suffer such punishment, by fine or imprisonment, or by both, as to the court may seem meet." And his lordship further desires it may be distinctly understood, that any individual acting in any capacity in the service of the Post-office, who shall be guilty of such an offence, will be prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law. By Command, W. L. Maberly, Secretary."