LETTERS TO NIUAFU.
“TIN CAN” MAIL. SYDNEY, July I. Nearly 3000 letters from all over Australia have poured into the office cf the Union Steam Ship Company for the Monowai’s “Tin Can mail” to the island of Niuafu in the Tongon group, where there are three white men, a priest, storekeeper and planter. Packed in watertight tins, the letters will be dropped overlioard, from the Monowai, which visited the island a year ago on a similar mission. A native canoe will pick them up. Enthusiastic philatelists have enclosed as much as 30s with the letters to obtain a good selection of Tongan stamps marked “Tin Can mail.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 182, 3 July 1936, Page 9
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107LETTERS TO NIUAFU. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 182, 3 July 1936, Page 9
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