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Writing a letter.... to Pinky the cat.

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Mr Melville Kerr, pictured here, is among Post Office staff kept busy this month with registration of motor vehicles.
The Gisborne office alone is issuing 8998 new number plates, including 5100 for private cars, 1856 for trucks, and 393 for motor-cycles. The district total of new plates being issued is over 13,000.

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Where does this queue end? Right round the corner in Childers Road. It was all part of the Springbok fever. Some of these people, waiting to buy tickets for the big game, stayed up all night. Others took their places in the queue at 3a.m. The P.B. Rugby Union secretary, Mr W. S. McKee, later praised orderly conduct of purchasers.