1000 Telegrams Sent
The Hamilton post and telegraph office experienced the busiest period on record last week-end, as many as 4000 telegrams, including over 2000 seasonal greetings, being dispatched in one day. Telegraphists and boys worked until after noon on Christmas Day in receiving and delivering the heavy batch of messages that had been’ filed before the closing of the office on Christmas Eve.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19824, 29 December 1938, Page 8
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641000 Telegrams Sent Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19824, 29 December 1938, Page 8
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