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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19149, 4 November 1927, Page 13

The need for protection against fire loss is obvious, Consult the Mercantile and General Insurance Co., Ltd., Hereford street. If one posls a packet or pa i eel of flowers, one -pays 6d extra to the Post Office for express rate. It js sixpence worth of fraud, says a Napier paper. A resident of Havelock North sent a package of flowers to Christehurch, paying, Asides the postage sixpence for express post. They were haml«l .n on Thursday, October 13th. Uej reached the recipient on the Monday following, while a letter posted at the same time reached its destination on Saturday morning. The flowers were wanted for a special purpose on fcundav, so the whole object of sending them fell through—the Government taking Is 2d for delivering the Roods by "express post." Iu view of the flower trade that may spring up between the moro faivoured districts of the North 1 Island and the flowerless South each winter, it perhaps would not be amiss for the Postal Department to see if flowers marked as "perishable" should not hold tho right-of-way- r.r at any rate be treated as "express -■ The loss to the world each year by. the rusting of-.iron" arid steel is said to amount to £500,000,000.