A comparison of the present-day penny postage rate with that of 88 years ago was made by Mr Gordon Elliot, M.P. (says the Manawatu Times) at the annual reunion of the Palmerston North branch of the Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association the other evening. In 1838, he stated, his grandfather, who was the first secretary of the department in New Zealand, received a letter from Englan<Laddresed ‘‘New Zealand, Neif South Wares.” Ic bore no stamp but the worda ‘‘postage 3s 6d.” The mistake in the address, ne oxpltinod, was probably due to the fact that at that period New Zealand was a dependency of the Colony of New Bouth Wales.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3768, 1 June 1926, Page 9
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