ON HOLIDAY
WOULD NOT DELIVER TELEGRAM The British Postmaster-General (Mr Lees-Smith) recently lost the chance of, a lifetime to show devotion to the service. "While holidaying in Wales, he found a village postmistress distracted because she had no messenger to deliver a telegram. Tiie regulations forbade her to leave the premises, and, unaware of Mr LeesSmith’s identity, she suggested that he earn the statutory fee of threepence provided in such cases for a substitute messenger. Ho smilingly declined.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 21 September 1929, Page 15
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78ON HOLIDAY Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 21 September 1929, Page 15
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