LAST CHRISTMAS MAIL
STILL TIME TO POST
There is still time to post' letters in New Zealand to reach England in time for Christmas. Tho Mariposa is scheduled to leave Auckland next Tuesday, and specially addressed correspondence carried by her is expected to reach London on 20th December, four days later than the big Christmas mail which the Niagara carried at the beginning of this week. ' .. .".'" . '. .
The Niagara's mail was easily the biggest' that has loft, these shores during the current year, consisting as it did of 988 bags of letters and 70 bags of parcels. Last year ?s Christmas mail consisted of just over a "thousand-bags of letters, but this is. no indication that fewer letters are being sent Home for Christmas this year/, because "direct steamers during tho last'couple of weeks, or so have taken over 800 bags of mail. More Christmas numbers of illustrated weeklies havo been posted this year than last year, bags of these exceeding last year's figures by\6o.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 121, 18 November 1932, Page 9
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164LAST CHRISTMAS MAIL Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 121, 18 November 1932, Page 9
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