L is for Local Loss

In January I blogged on Australia's smallest post office in the hamlet of Rock Valley near Lismore. I sadly have to report that on Saturday it was burnt to the ground.

http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2012/10/01/rock-valley-post-office-up-in-flames-fire/

This will be devasting for the Rock Valley and nearby communities as the tiny post office was a hub of village life. Police are still treating it as suspicious. I also see in the Australian newspaper that there has been a call to rebuild it, as besides being vital to the community it was also a tourist attraction. There is a sad but lovely story in yesterdays Northern Star about Joyce Bailey who was 3 years old when the first Rock Valley Post Office began on her verandah in 1930.


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