FLYING POSTMEN OF THE FROZEN NORTH.
Once, or at the most twice, a year the fur-clad postman used to drive his dog team through the frozen wastes of Northern Canada, delivering, letters to people cut off from the world in the lonely mining camps and trading stations. That was the Estate of affairs until quite recently. But now those people in the snowy lands get their letters once a week, or, if .they . live-in very inaccessible places, once a month. This is because the dog team has given place to the aeroplane. In summer and in winter, when the temperature in the Arctic circle is 50 degrees or mores below zero, the mail goes through. Hardy fellows, these flying postmen, who face Arctic snowstorms and blizzards as part of their day's work.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 184, 5 August 1936, Page 22
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