. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 31, 1917. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 165. SENDING EEMITTANCES. Will subscribers, and others, please bear in mind when sending remittances that though the most cordial relations exist between ourselves and the the latter has no business connection with our papers. All cheques or money orders for should be made payable, and sent, to the secretary, and not mixed up With our accounts. Many people appear to be under the impression that our papers are owned by the , judg- ing by the number of cheques we receive, inclu
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 31, 1917. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 165. SENDING EEMITTANCES. Will subscribers, and others, please bear in mind when sending remittances that though the most cordial relations exist between ourselves and the the latter has no business connection with our papers. All cheques or money orders for should be made payable, and sent, to the secretary, and not mixed up With our accounts. Many people appear to be under the impression that our papers are owned by the , judg- ing by the number of cheques we receive, including in the one amount subscription to the , insurance, and subscrip- tion to one or both of our papers, or remittances for books. It would be just as reasonable when sending a cheque to the grocer to make the amount large enough to pay the butcher's bill as well, and expect them to adjust the matter. We have even on several occasions re- ceived cheques to cover subscriptions to both the Journal and one or other of the county associations! This kind of thing causes, a lot of needless trouble and delay in adjusting accounts, and in future if cheques are sent for these mixed accounts we may feel obliged to return them to the drawer for the amounts to be separated. When stamps are sent for small amounts we prefer halfpenny to penny stamps; as we have before remarked, we can use two halfpenny stamps when a penny stamp is required, but if two half- penny stamps are needed, and we have only a penny one, the latter cannot be cut in two. It is astonishing how careless many people are in addressing letters., etc. We have several times received let- ters addressed " Office, 23, Bedford Street "âin some cases even the word "Office" had been omitted. Probably numbers of our readers, especially in the country, do not realise that in some of the blocks of buildings in the large towns there may be dozens of offices all with the same address. There are at present,
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