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POSTAL CLERK’S EXPERIENCE.

SOME VIVID IMPRESSION*. AUCKLAND. Aug. 12. ' There were three postal clerks in charge uf ihe mails in the second van. Messrs T. D. Robb. .7. Deacon and 8. it. Diinstan. They had a memorable experience when their cars crashed arid splintered. Their story was in the form of some vivid impressions. First of all there was a. succession of bumps, and these Were followed by violent swaying, which compelled them to take a firm hold of the hoppers and then of ihe mailbags. As one clerk graphically phrase.l ii : “It began to jazz, while all the. letters leapt from their pigeon-holes and fluttered all over tho van.” Tho windows crashed, but just as the postal officials expected a final smash-up, the train came to a stop. The chaotic confusion of the mailbags and letters in the van is indescribable. It looked as if ev'erylhing had fallen from a wrecked aeroplane. _ Tlie disorder was quickly sot aright, the clerks sorting the letters as though they had been in a comfortable room at headquarters. Not a letter was defaced.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2467, 15 August 1922, Page 1

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POSTAL CLERK’S EXPERIENCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2467, 15 August 1922, Page 1

POSTAL CLERK’S EXPERIENCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2467, 15 August 1922, Page 1

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