MAILS TO WAIWERA
HEROIC EFFORT IN THE MUD RURAL HARDSHIPS The city man who last winter dropped a bill with a halt-penny stamp into the post office addressed to Waiwera hardly visualised the value he was going to get for his money. The mails are delivered by service car via Devonport. Frequently in the rainy weather the car was bogged four miles before reaching Silverdale. The mails were carried by sledge or on horseback, or even on the car driver’s back over the four miles to a point where another car could be picked up. Even then the trouble was not finished, for just as often the cars could not get within three miles of Waiwera, and the car driver was compelled to deliver mail bags on foot. The return journey had also to he made, if possible, the same day. meaning sometimes 14 miles tramping for the mail contractor.- Waiwera is 26 miles from Devonport—over 27$ from the Chief Post Office at Auckland—and the mail route is the main road northward. In this condition it has existed for over 70 years.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 259, 23 January 1928, Page 14
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182MAILS TO WAIWERA Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 259, 23 January 1928, Page 14
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