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.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19220815.2.3
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2467, 15 August 1922, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
180POSTAL CLERK’S EXPERIENCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2467, 15 August 1922, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.