POSTING A LETTER

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24102, 22 October 1941, Page 11

POSTING A LETTER

NOVEL METHOD USED DROPPED FROM AEROPLANE (0.C.) PUKEKOJttE. Tuesday An unusual method of posting a letter was adopted by Mrs. W. E. Lloyd, of Buckland, Pukekohe, who has just returned from the South Island. Mrs. Llovd visited Christchurch at the invitation of combined women's organisations in the South Island to give instruction in a new method of spinning wool from fleece for making up into garments for members of the fighting forces. Airs. Lloyd received an invitation also to visit Blenheim to give instruction in the work at a meeting to be arranged by the local agricultural and pastoral society. There was no time to reply to the invitation, which she was unable to accept, before Mrs. Lloyd left Christchurch, so the letter, which was weighted for the purpose, was dropped from an aeroplane. As a mark of appreciation of her services in Christchurch, the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association chartered a two-seater aeroplane to give Mrs. Lloyd a trip by air to Wellington on her return north, and when passing over Blenheim the letter was dropped from the machine, at very low altitude, over a court where people were playing tennis. It was, of course, anticipated that the tennis players who picked up the letter would forward it to the addressees.