MAIL BAGS BURNT

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24401, 30 October 1944, Page 4

MAIL BAGS BURNT

+ FIRE ON STILLWATER - STATION From Our Own Reporter GREYMOUTH, October 27. Seven bags oi second-class mail were damaged by fire and water on the Stillwater railway station early yesterday morning. The bags contained Westport and Nelson mails forwarded from Dunedin and Christchurch and other southern points, which had arrived on the early morning mixed goods train from Christchurch. Stillwater is the transit station, and other mails, parcels, newspapers, etc., for Reefton had been loaded on to another barrow by a porter shortly before six o’clock. When the porter returned a few minutes later he found the second barrowload in flames. There was a good blaze, and as a keen wind was blowing at the time, great difficulty was experienced in quelling the outbreak. • DIRECTOR-GENERAL’S STATEMENT (P.A.) WELLINGTON. October 29. A statemeht by the Director-General of the Post Office (Mr J. G. Young) says' that the seven bags of mail damaged by fire on the Stillwater railway platform yesterday morning comprised two bags from Christchurch to Nelson, two bags from Dunedin to Nelson, one bag from Christchurch to Murchison, one parcel bag from Christchurch to Westport, and one parcel bag from Dunedin to Westnort, In addition one Christchurch to Westport bag, which included some air mail from Auckland, was scorched, but it is believed that the contents can be delivered. Two bags frdm Dunedin to Westport, and one bag from Christchurch to West-