MAIL VAN FIRE
A COSTLY LESSON
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
Referring to the recent destruction of the railway postal van, with mail matter, in the North Island, Mr. Pattison suggested to the Manufacturers' Association that the association should support the P. and T. Department in its request that postal trans should be made of steel, or should be placed at the rear of the train, away from sparks from the engine. The Department had been negligent in putting a wooden postal van on the train next to the engine. It caught fire, and only the registered mail was saved. It seemed absurd that thousands of pounds worth of goods should be carried in a wooden van next to the engine. The speaker said that his firm had several hundred pounds worth of goods destroyed. It was not known whether any claim could be successfully made, but it wasrumoured" that the P. and T. Department and the Railway Department would settle claims on a fifty-fifty basis. It was decided to bring the subject before, the Chamber of Commerce.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 14
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183MAIL VAN FIRE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 14
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