‘BY DRIFT MAIL'
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)
MELBOURNE, October 2.
Mr Tim Cousins of the transcription department of Radio Australia, was surprised to receive this week at letter posted in Samoa in June,
He was even more puzzled when he saw typed on the envelope “By Drift Mail.” Mr Cousins’s letter had been brought to Australia by the 78-year-old American adven-
turer, William Willis, who sailed his raft, Age Unlimited, across the Pacific. Mr Cousins, the overseas liaison officer with the transcription department, said he sent about 100 tape broadcasts weekly throughout the world. The letter was from the head of a broadcasting station in Apia. Western Samoa, who received these taped programmes which supplement Radio Australia’s short-wave broadcasts. The letter, which took three months one week and a day to reach Australia, read simply: “This may be worth keeping.” It carried 4d postage and was postmarked June 20, Samoa, and September 28, Sydney.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30562, 3 October 1964, Page 13
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