It will be found that a communication centre is useful only when it centres and channels all communications of specific kinds from the public to the organization and the organization to the organization. (An organism with more than one brain does not survive well.)

It shall be the policy of the HASI to use but one general staff bulletin board on which all notices pertaining to staff and the HASI in general shall be placed.

All Communication channels must centre in one room and area for all departments.

It shall be further policy that no action be taken to bar the public from viewing this board.

The types of communication to be handled thus are as follows:

The Board shall be on the outside of the Reception room door, thus sparing space, and adjacent to the communication centre as a board is itself a communication centre.

1. Callers in person

Postings and the condition of the board shall be the direct responsibility of the Receptionist under the Association Secretary.

2. Callers by phone

All notices placed on this board shall be of an official HASI nature. No other postings may be made by outside sources.

3. Written despatches within the organization to other parts of the organization

A Student Information board may be placed in the Director of Training's office at his discretion and this may hold public notices as to living quarters available, ads for sales, class schedules, etc., but this shall not be an official board.

4. Personal letters to organization members

Violations of this policy shall be reported to the Agent for Great Britain.

5. Posted orders and notices

6. Messages for staff from public to staff or staff to staff.

Omitted from such a centre are:

[This Policy Letter was also issued in some areas with a date of 8 April 1957.]

1. Incoming mail (goes direct from postman to accounting, not otherwise examined or distributed until accounting invoices it).

2. Outgoing mail and packages (go directly to post office from shipping unit by mail clerk).

(Although an outgoing mail basket can be in the communication centre to be emptied by shipping daily for staff convenience.)

3. Intercomm phones (which go directly from office to office within without clearing through comm centre).

4. Verbal messages as in conversation from staff member to staff member. (But all orders so expressed must be in writing to be valid and must clear through comm centre.)

The terms "off line" and "out of comm" apply as follows:

"Off line" – not cleared through comm centre.

"Out of comm" – a stacked and unwatched basket in the comm centre.

Those interested in the welfare of the HASI should accomplish a meticulous observance of this policy. Those interested in its demise should attempt a breakdown of this policy.