MAILS SOAKED
ADDRESSES UNDECIPHERABLE. WELLINGTON, Fob. 12. When tho mails were landed from Ri.M.S. Majnura to-day, a considerable quantity of letters and) newspapers from England) was found to be wet- In several cases the addresses on The mail jnatter was not decipherable, wliilq a quantity of letters and newspapers were reconditioned xol dan for delivery.
The mails were for Wellington and other places in the Dominion. It is believed that the mails got wot while crossing the Atlantic to New York during a period! when heavy storms buffetted shipping and! large quantities of water camel aboard even tire largest liners.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 36, 14 February 1929, Page 5
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100MAILS SOAKED Stratford Evening Post, Issue 36, 14 February 1929, Page 5
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