An incident which shows how easily mails can go astray occurred to a Hauraki Plains woman recently. She went to her front gate, and placed a letter in the rural delivery box for the mailman to collect. Turning round as she went back up the path, she saw a starling pull the letter out of the box and start tearing the envelope to pieces. When she got back the letter had been ripped open and the contents lay on the ground, whilst the bird had pushed the envelope into the box. evidently with the idea of using it in the construction of its nest.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3996, 14 October 1930, Page 29
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