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i Speaking at flic annual dinner of the letter Carriers attached to the staff of the Wellington General Post Office, Mr J. Johnston, clerk in charge, stat- I ed that during the present year the i carrying staff would deliver about 8,000,000 articles in the city. The public he remarked, was too careless in addressing letters, and during the current year no fewer than 3233 letters plainly addressed to Wellington had been found to be meant for other towns, and had to be forwarded to the proper i addresses. A number of others wrongly addressed had been sent to the right address after a great deal of trouble ; in some cases the right address couiu not be discovered. Incidentally he made it clear that the Department takes a ' great deal of trouble to make good the deficiencies of the public. j A comfortable and pleasing way of viewing the exhibits at the Exhibition is by means of the wheel chairs, and the decision of the proprietors to further popularise this feature of the Exhibition by reducing the hiring charge to ls 6d for the first hour and ls for every subsequent hour will be received with , gratification by the public (says tho "Press"). Arrangements can also be made for sending the chairs, with attendant, <f> any private residence within the city boundaries. ,* i Deer seem to bo exceedingly ptoutilul in the South Wairarapa, and to be causing considerable damageto crops. At the same time, a local landowner reports that heads are going off, owing, he says, to thb'-Wnt of now blood. He thinks that the Acclimatisation Society , could got plonty of calves caught if it 'offered a suitable bonus to tho Maoris, so that the stocking of the Tararuas, where the deer "would havo a boundless field, might go ahead. - i

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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 306, 3 December 1906, Page 4

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Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 306, 3 December 1906, Page 4

Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 306, 3 December 1906, Page 4