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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 3 (August 1, 1931)

From the Railway to Your Door

From the Railway to Your Door.

Another interesting branch of the Department's activities in this connection is the parcels delivery service in operation in various parts of New Zealand. This system has been established at Auckland, Frankton Junction, Hamilton, New Plymouth, Hawera, Wanganui, and Palmers-ton North, in the North Island, and at Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill in the South Island. By way of illustrating the advantages of this system it may be mentioned that on a telephonic request from, say Palmerston North to a business house in Wellington, for a particular article, with instructions that the article be given the patronage of the rail, the article, if it weighs up to 112lb. will be delivered by the railways to the door of the purchaser for the modest sum of 6d—this, of course, within specified limits of the railway.