A RECORD MAIL.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17628, 4 December 1922, Page 8

A RECORD MAIL.

SECOND DELIVERY ON BAIHHM 1 The local Postal officials kit ' strenuous time during the Wwi., On Saturday , the ferry brought down ao /wlar tian 513,)ia of mail matter aid 266 hampenlo Christchurch itself, and 426 bags u 229 hampers for the South, The qui) tity of mail handled constituted, ) record. Tho mail arrived at 9.20 ii, and by 1 p.m. the whole of thd letto for Christchurch were dealt with, ft balance being finished by 7.80 p.m. 6 deal witjj the mail a double stall Hi put on at Lyttelton and also at A Christchurch railway station, whilstb whole of the mail staff worked a until everything had bfen disposed ti The mail for the South was oeipstd ed by a second express, two toil agente accompanying it,' and otring tl its unusually large size, a large "V waggon, beside the van, was osed ji carry it. Yesterday 40 bags of matter Mil* hampers were received ex th« Win? tui, and a further load of 168 packjfS is expected to-day ex the 'Woottoa ; ;| will probably arrive by the 7.25** train from Lyttelton. .'v:^ On Saturday night the staff MS w palled on to deal with an EnglifiD M outwards, and yesterday with » W which arrived by a special traitt M Dunedin. To enable tno peopWi "J®* so desired, to reply by the onw» English mail that night, a second * iivery of letters was made on S*®"? afternoon. ; ~ . . v The mail from the North wW English and American mail a double mail from the NortU s ® To handle such an extraordinaruT W quantitv of mail matter thd IOC". Office staff on Saturday, worked W 5 a.m. until after 8 p.m.