LETTERS AS USUAL
(British Official Wireless.) RLGBV, April 28. The Postmaster-General (Mr Morrison). -giving a .broadcast on the work ot the Post Office in wartime, said that 40.000 skilled men had joined the regular armed forces, and a Home Guard of 00.000 had been raised from the remaining ranks. “There is a famous town in the West Country which not so long ago was severely bombed, and one incident of the night's damage was the complete destruction of the post office. Yet next morning at the usual time the citizens of that town had their two daily deliveries ol mails, and the mails from that town end the whole district from which it collects arrived punctually in London on the same day. One night last autumn a large post office in the London suburb of Battersea was completely destroped by bombs, arid next morning the usual deliveries of mail were made in Battersea.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19410430.2.67
Bibliographic details
Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 126, 30 April 1941, Page 7
Word Count
153LETTERS AS USUAL Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 126, 30 April 1941, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in