POSTAL OFFICIALS’ RECORD
MAILS FROM AORANGI I>OSTAL officials created another A record last evening, when the/ transferred the Southern mails from the Aorangi to the second express. Two motor launches were rushed out to the vessel at 7.30 o'clock, as she lay in the stream. Two hundred and forty bags of mail for the Southern parts of New Zealand were quickly put into the launches and a smart run was made for the wharf. Here the mail was loaded on to waiting motor-lorries and taken to the station. Meanwhile the second express had been held, but she was required to wait for only 15 minutes. Twenty-five minutes after be»ng taken from the Aorangi the mail was speeding South.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 550, 31 December 1928, Page 1
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