WELLINGTON MAIL SERVICE IMPROVED
vi v Commencing from Monday next new postal arrangam&nts will operate which w II mean the ;> saving of about 2« hours in the exchange of cor/espondecoc between Stratford and Wellington. -, : ; At present, mail ' mailer from ui.Wellington by the Main Trunk . express reaches Wangan# about 9 p.m. but |s not carried on by ; ’a' goods train wK:ch leaves later f6r, North, as the train arrives ~ at Stratford about 4 a.m., when y there Is) no Post Office employee . • ..on duty to rece.ve the mail. By i! new arrangement the mail wilt • come on by the goods train and Will b© in charge of the railway . staff till taken charge' of by the Post 1 Office staff at 7 a.m. The letters will be sorted fnto private boxes by 8 a.m., thus enabling urgent replies to be forwarded -r by the south-bound mail train at 9.30 a.m.).
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 99, 8 December 1928, Page 5
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