TWO GOOD STORIES
■GRANDMOTHERS'' FUNERALS. Two anecdotes of more than usual merit were current in London lately. A man who received a postcard about eight and, a-half years after its due date of delivery wrote to the Postmafi-ter-General, at that time Mr Herbert Samuel, to congratulate him on having delivered it within nine years. Mr Samuel wrote personally to thank him for his courtesy, and to explain that he had no doubt his ' correspondent’s satisfaction was due “to our new system, under which the PostmasterGeneral personally accompanies every postcard to its destination.” The other story is an echo of Boat Race Saturday. On the previous Thursday this notice was posted in a large office in the city:—“Owing to the high mortality among grandmothers at the period of the Boat Race, the office will be closed on Saturday, except for a nucleus staff drawn from those whose bereavements occurred on the day of the England v. Scotland football match at Twickenham.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1779, 6 July 1926, Page 2
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