WAS OFF DUTY
WOULD NOT EARN THREEPENCE.
London, September 10.
The Postmaster-General. (Mr Lees-Smith) recently lost the chance of a lifetime to show devotion to the service. While holidaying in Wales, he found ,a village postmistress distracted because she had no messenger to deliver a telegram. - The regulations forbade her to leave the premises and, unaware of Mr Lees-Smith’s identity, she suggested that he earn the statutory fee of threepence provided in such cases for a substitute messenger.
He smilingly declined. —Sun Special.—
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Southland Times, Issue 20897, 5 October 1929, Page 23
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