An exceedingly funny story about tlae Post Office was told to the PostmasterGeneral by a country settler last } week, says the New Zealand J mics. An inspector of the department went out to officially examine the working of an office not'a hundred miles from \\ cllin<rton, the name of which appeals m the" Postal Guide. The postmaster was at work in his shirt sleeves and the “post office” appeared to be jneiel} a candle box. This upset the official s idea of propriety, and he urged the importance of having more appropriate facilities for transacting State business ‘lf you don’t shut up,” retorted the gruff l amateur postmaster, I H hit y«u over the head with the bally pest office! ’ ’ _____
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2518, 3 June 1909, Page 2
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