CURIOUS CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
Hero is a regulation that forbuls animals being sent through the post, in spite of that many curious christ ®' gifts in living form have passed W the postman's hands year by jear. are fewer now than they used to which, to the postman's way of thin is very much to the good. Why should anybody send anybody eu a hamper crammed full of live leeche . That was the question tlnU ono - s ° I ft asked himself on Christmas Eve, wi _ parcel that had burst open revealed tn original Christmas " box. nackage On another occasion a long . P L 3 p 6 very much like a little coflm " hallaaroused the suspicions ot. the man hjs ling it before dispatch. ( lmag " vea led amazement when investigation ( a baby alligator, happily last a.- ee f Little less astonishing was a 00. taining 150 frogs, while a "° „ onC e had tunate member ot the postal st i, an iper the job of handling a s »®P^ o^ ng and that was found to contain l-» „ healthy adders. enough, Tame by comparison, hut queer } l£K i was a box that broke before it fu jj its destination and was found m body'» of black beet les—doubtless some notion of a Christmas jok*.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21054, 12 December 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)
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210CURIOUS CHRISTMAS GIFTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21054, 12 December 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)
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