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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 June 1924, Page 10

Gepius. it has been stated, is an infinite capacity for taking pains. There must be many geniuses in Dunedin, remarks the Otago Daily Times. At the corner of Georg© and Pitt streets there is situated a pillar box arrangement from which are controlled certain city electric installations. A few yards away is a real letter pillar box. To look at the electric pillar box one would wonder how anybody could ever get a letter in the small crack at the side of the door. Yet by taking great pains it is possible to “post” a letetr through this crack. One day last week a city electrical employee took no fewer thau 2o letters from the electric pillar box. It is easy to imagine the called down on the Postal Department by those who waste their time and patience pushing their letters through the interstice. It is also hard to understand the disappointment of those people who are not receiving their correspondence. In six weeks’ time, according to a statement made at the Stratford Borough Council meeting on Monday evening, the Whangamomona train will be running through the tunnel, which, readers will rememlrer, was blocked at both ends by the deluge in April last.