HEROIC MAIL CARRIERS.
According to Dr. Woolnough, who recently travelled through the Northern Territory, amongst the heroes of Australia are the mailmen of that little-known land. They drive the mail across the 80-mile dry stages twice * month, and ho wondered how .they got through without many more accidents than take place. Nothing is heard of them by the outside world unless the mail is delayed or a fatality takes place on the route. It sa/e much, ho thinks, lor their courage and ItHourca that tho journey across the dry suVgt* is attempted nid accomplished with regularity and even fromptnes*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14924, 23 February 1912, Page 8
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