Calpurnia's Salvaged Mails
A number of letters and post-cards which suffered immersion when the air-liner Calpurnia. en route from England to Australia, crashed in Irak .and was a total less, have reached Gisborne addresses. All bear evidence of their immersion, and in some cases the addresses are almost illegible. The more extensivelydamaged portion of the Calpurnia's mail, which, of course, included only first-class matter, will be dealt with through the dead-letter office, which will endeavour to trace the addressees by reference to the senders, where necessary. The letters and cards which have reached Gisborne are likely to be treasured by their recipients as mementoes of an accident of a tyoe fortunately infrequent in the annals of air navigation on the Empire routes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19821, 24 December 1938, Page 16
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122Calpurnia's Salvaged Mails Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19821, 24 December 1938, Page 16
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