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The postmaster was a lady:

When Miss H.E. Bowen was appointed postmistress of Levin's smart new Post Office in 1903, she became talk of the town.

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Miss H. E. Bowen
Post Office
Robert Kent
Drapery shop with Mrs Bowen
Levin's old manual telephone exchange
Mr Pat Patterson
Thirty two years as a draper in Levin was recorded by Mr John Corry
Mayoress
Mr Phillips
Weraroa Post Office

Levin Post Office, on the south – eastern corner of the intersection of Oxford
Street and Queen Street, Levin, c.1921.

Weraroa Post Office

Former postmistress and mayoress of Levin, Miss Daisy Bowen photographed at a 1957 Chrysanthemum Show with Mrs K.Z. Lynch, the Levin Horticultural Society's president in that year.

Came along the beach:

Levin's first postal service was supplied by the coaches that used to run along the beach from Wellington to Foxton and north to Wanganui twice a week, in the 1870's.

Contains:

Levin's first postal service
Agnes McDonald
Cobb and Company coaches
Bartholomews Sawmill
Mr F. G. Roe
First official post office was a small wooden building in Queen Street, West

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Multi-Page Document
Date
March 1981

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