Kaikohe
Miss M. Crisp, of Whangarei, was a visitor to Kaikohe recently. Mrs C. Sanders and Miss A. Sanders have returned after a business trip to Auckland,
Salvaged Mail. Some New Zealanders can expect, to receive besmirched and water-soiled letters within the next few days, for .advice has been received from the British Post Office that mails from the Imperial Airways flying-boat Calpurnia have been salvaged and reconditioned and are being forwarded by ,air. The Calpurnia, which took off from Southampton last month with Christmas mails for Australia and New Zealand, crashed while making a forced landing in the south-west corner of Lake Ramadi, near Bagdad. The mail, which included 60 bags for the Dominion, has been almost completely recovered. Many letters were retrieved while floating on the surface of the water by members of the Royal Air Force Sailing Club in boats.
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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1938, Page 12
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143Kaikohe Northern Advocate, 19 December 1938, Page 12
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