Over 100,000,000 used postal criers, weighing about; thirty tons, hr.rc. Iwn moved from (lie old G.P.O. building in Queen Victoria Street, liondoii, to tin new l'.O. promises ill Manor Gardens, jfolloway. The recent enormous growth of (lie 'postal business has und-eivd 11?-ce-ssary the crcction of new buildings. They cover over An acre and -i half. 'Hie death took placo on August 5 of General Sir Robert Cunlifl'o Low, keeper of the Crown jewels since 1000. The son of General Sir John Low, Sir Robert, who was born in 183S, entered the 13ongal Cavalrv at tho ape of 1G and served right through the Indian Mutiny. Dismounting for only one hill, a Sheffield motor-cyclist has just completed a tour round the entire coast of Great Britain in twenty-two days.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1236, 19 September 1911, Page 6
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128Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1236, 19 September 1911, Page 6
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