John Smith Collects His Letter
AUCKLAND, Oct. 11. A letter from. Trieste addressep. to "John Smith" care of PostmagterGeneral, Auckland, has been delivered to its rightful- owner? about Six weeks after its arrival in the country. To the Post Office- it to qiiite an easy job. j. £ The correspondent, in an accom- ' panying letter to the postai authorities, said that John Smith was in the 21st Battalion, Second N.Z.E.F., the. General Freyberg Divjsion," and that they had met in Trieste in 1945, A check with Base Records soon traced the owner of the letter. He is Mr. J. B, Smith, Kaikoh'e, a Kiwi, 1946-47 AU Black and 1'948 Maori all Black who represented the North Island in the North v. South Island match at Athletic Park on October 2.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 October 1948, Page 5
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