Our Post Office and its History
March 26, 2015
Provided by the Morrinsville Heritage Centre, published in Morrinsville News, 26 March 2015.
On 1 March 1876 the first Post Office was opened in the Jolly Cripple Hotel and Mowbray was appointed Postmaster a month later.
The Post Office was originally called Waitoa but...
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