TOWER POST BOX
SPECIAL STAMP AND POSTAL SERVICE. EXHIBITION FEATURE. A novel postal service at the Centennial Exhibition is creating considerable interest among visitors, who are able to post letters at the top of the 175-foot tower. ( The specially designed post marking stamp gives letters posted at this box appropriate value as a memento of a visit to the Exhibition. The box is cleared at 3.30 p.m. daily, and all letters in it are specially post marked by the Centennial Exhibition Post Office in the Government Court. The Postmaster at the Exhibition said that it was necessary to leave about two inches of space on the left hand edge of the envelope to allow room for the rubber stamp. The stamp has on it a drawing of the tower and beneath that “1840-1940” and the words. “Posted at the top of the tower.” Across the top of the stamp in small lettering arc the words, “New Zealand Centennial Exhibition.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1939, Page 3
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159TOWER POST BOX Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1939, Page 3
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