Card in Bottle

Southland Times, Issue 23675, 25 November 1938, Page 11

Card in Bottle

During a'visit to Hunua Falls, Pukekohe, more than 22 years ago, Mr H. M. Crispe, of Mauku, wrote his name and date, and the words “Hunua Falls” on a business card and put it into a bottle he found there. He corked the bottle up and threw it into the stream. A Clevedon resident, Mr R. J. Hale, 'recently communicated with him and told him that he had found the bottle on September 20 on a tidal flat in the estuary of the Wairoa river, near Clevedon. The bottle was scored by contact with rocks and there was a little water inside it, but the writing on the card was still .easily legible.

Big Mail Figures It is estimated by the Post Office that the overseas despatches by airmail to England during the Christmas period will not be less than 900,000 letters. The best despatch to make sure of delivery in good time before Christmas is on November 30 from Auckland by the Awatca. This mail is due in London on December 15. Subsequent postings are December 6, from Wellington, due London December 19; and December 8 from Auckland, due London December 22.