FUNNY WAYS OF OLD DAYS
(To the Editor.) ;,, SM'rY 0Ul" l: efele»ce to the funny ways n old days ot mail methods hardly goes back far enough. Time was when the Evening Post," not the General Post iw &S JUls me»t'oned. The Genera Post Ottcc at the foot of the Queen's Wharf had no (lag pole, but the "EveninnPost" had. The latter was linked up and got a signal when the flag had to go up I its site being the most conspicuous in Well mgton at the time. The pole and truck however, were not in the best of order' and mam- a time the signal depended upon the climbing faculties of the printer's devil and well do I remember climbing through l)v. -Newmans window, on to Cohen's, the jeweller s verandah, over the parapet, and up the pole, before that flag would fly.— nil. June. HENRY BODLBY.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 8
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