So healthful and beneficial a form of exercise is skipping that a doctor strongly advocates its adoption as a standard form of gymnastics. According to the annual report of Great Britain's Postmasi/er-General, for the year ending Maroh 31, 1905, there would appear to be a large substratum of carelessness in , the latterday composition of the British people. Daring the twelve months there were 526,668,740 undelivered letters and packets, and 815,965 registered letters end packets, containing an aggregate of £17 830 in cash and bank-notes, and £622,128 in bills, cheques, money orders, etc., insufficiently addressed. Articles found loose in the post in the same period inoluded £1171 in cash, and over £12,000 in oheoues.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8452, 21 October 1905, Page 4
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