MORE REGULARITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 223, 19 September 1940, Page 5

MORE REGULARITY.

MAILS FOR TROOPS. 1

DISPATCHES TO EGYPT. 1

WELLINGTON, Wednesday.

"Advices received by the Post Office continue to show increased regularity in the arrival of mails in Egypt for the Xew Zealand Forces in the East," said the Postmaster-General, the C Webb, to-night. "At the end of last month a large quantity of mail matter which had been dispatched from Xew Zealand in May and -which had been I subjected to heavy delay was received at the base post office in Egypt.

"This means that, with certain exceptions, all surface mails dispatched from the Dominion up to the end of June have reached their destination. The exceptions comprise 19 bags of letters, etc., and 98 bags of parcels dispatched earlv in May, which are believed to have been lost, and 200 bags of letters, etc., and 143 bags of parcels, which were on board vessels that were diverted after departure from port. These diverted mails may have reached their destination since" the dispatch of the advice on which the foregoing statement is based-

"Since the beginning of August surface mails from Ejiypt have reached the Dominion regularly, mails having been received on August 0, 20 and 27, and September 8. Air maDs, both to and from the forces in Epypt, have added appreciably to the frequency of exchanges. Not a week goes by without ior or more air mail being received from or dispatched to the base post office in Egypt."—(Press Assn.)