Rural Mail —and then Some! Pity the poor rural mail carrier when the festive season comes round! (Loud "Hear hears" from Avell-and-favcurably-known drivers of H.M. rural mail vans in Whakatane district). On Christmas Elve settlers at the end of one mail route on the Rangitaiki Plains did not get their mail till 8 p.m. But what a mail ! Bulky parcels from distant relatives, last-minute letters and Christmas cards —all from the Post Office: and in addition a van full of bread, cakes and meat from Whakatane shops. Was the mailman tired o'' cramming legs of mutton and loaves of bread into roadside boxes? We''say he was. '
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 198, 31 December 1941, Page 5
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