VERY DEAD DEAD LETTER
SYDNEY, July 17. Sydney's dead letter office is liandling its deadest letter on record — a human skeleton whicli came from New Guinea in a bag of pillaged mail. The address had heen torii off. Employees in the office reacted _ strongly against having to work near the human remains and some of the men ohjected to handling the hones which are clean but unassemhled. Medical students and institutions are experiencihg difficulty in ohtaining skeletons for the study of anatomy and the pclice attach no other significance to the presence of the hones. The Director of Post and Telegraph has solved the prohlem hy offering the Skeleton to the Sydney TJniversity.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 July 1946, Page 5
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113VERY DEAD DEAD LETTER Chronicle (Levin), 18 July 1946, Page 5
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