LAUNDRY THROUGH THE POST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 7 January 1911, Page 5

LAUNDRY THROUGH THE POST

CHRISTCHURCH BUSINESS EMBRACES NORTH ISLAND. It is not generally known that within the past few years one of the Christchurch laundries has developed a large business with residents in some of the North Island centres, says a Christchurch message. It has customers in Auckland, Wellington, Napier, and Gisborne who send regularly packages of soiled linen to be laundered. Most of them have provided small wooden boxes in which the articles may be transmitted through the post without injury. Apparently this is not to be accounted a virtue to the laundries of Christchurch, says the Star, for the development of the system is ascribed largely to the "faddiness" of people. There is, however, the fact that in some of the North Island towns—Auckland, for instance — collars are returned from the wash with a burden double that charged in Christchurch. There would be less murmuring if the collars were skilfully washed and ironed, but a natural objection is taken to an embellishment of smirches and smudges that would immediately catch the eye of a prospective employer. It is said that an increasingly large number of people resident in the North Island is acquiring the habit of posting the week's "wash" to Christchurch.