FIRE DESTROYS LETTERS
BLAZE IN POSTING BOX (By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Saturday A fire in a posting box at Ellerslie i post office just before midnight destroyed about half of a considerable quantity of mail. The building, as well as the rest of the mail was saved as a result of the prompt action of a boy who saw flames through the posting aperture and roused the postmaster. The outbreak was suppressed with a hand extinguisher. It is estimated that fifty letters were lost m the fire, which is attributed to vandalism.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22093, 17 July 1943, Page 4
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