SPECIAL MESSENGERS.
POSTAL DEPARTMENT'S NEW
SCHEME.
(SPKCIAL TO "THE THESS.")
WELLINGTON, May 28.
The special messenger is already a familiar .figure in some New Zealand cities, including Wellington, and he is now to appear in a now guise as a rider of -motor-bicycles. The Post and Telegraph department has decided that at otticus where there are tolegraph message boys, it will provide motorcycles. Tnese boys will be available when they can be spared, from their ordinary duties as special messengers to carry on a speciat service. The offices at which tnis departure will be tried arc Wellington and Christchurch, and the ?ee charged for the services of a messenger mounted on a motorcycle is "2s 6d per hour or fraction thereof. The foe for special messengers on. loot, when they are engaged by timo, is Is for the rirst hour, and sixpence for each succeeding half-hour or fraction thereof, and, in nddition, where more than one article is to be delivered, oirb penny for each pxtra article up to ten, tho maximum for delivery by one messenger.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14980, 29 May 1914, Page 5
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177SPECIAL MESSENGERS. Press, Volume L, Issue 14980, 29 May 1914, Page 5
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