Here is a challenge for a hot summer day – try working out the message on this postcard of Auckland from 1903. Add your version in the comments box below.
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This is a place to spend a holiday. How do do manage to send P.C. round world. Let me I will do it. How lonely you will be when your friend goes away. Shall I come & keep you company. Booze is fixed up. Nora did it. F.C.
This is a place to spend a holiday.
How do you manage to send P.C around world. Let me I will do it.
How lonely you will be when your friend goes
away. Shall I come to keep you company.
Book is fixed up Norm did it. F.C.
This is a place to spend a holiday. How do you manage to send P.C. round world. hee hee I will doit. How lonely you will be when your friend goes away. Shall I come & keep you company. Boore? (Bore) is fixed mrs?Norman? did it. TC.
This is a place to spend holiday
How do you manage to send P.C [Post Card?]
round world. Tell [?] me I will do it.
How lonely you will be when your friend goes
away. Shall I come & keep you company
Book is fixed up [?] Norm [?] did it. F. C.