SEEKING INFORMATION ABOUT FOOD PARCELS

Chronicle (Levin), 15 August 1946, Page 8

SEEKING INFORMATION ABOUT FOOD PARCELS

-Press Associcition

CONFISCATIONS POSSIBLE

By Telegraph-

wki.li.no ta, -u.g. > i. Tlio New Zeiilainl l'ust Otli-e lum i'c ceived no intinuition tluit gii't purccl Kcnt from X«w Zculnnd to poraons i Cnited Kingdom, urc bcing coiili.-cuic.

by tlie British Bonnl of Trude, said tio Postmaster-Cieneral, Hon. 1*. Wcbli, to day. He added tlial. conliscation wa alwavs likelv to occur if the scndcrs u Xew Zealand iufringcd the coiulition laid down relating to the disjiatch oi such parcels. Tliese conditions had been full publicised previously. Mr. Wcbli eniphasised that restritions 011 the seading of git't pan-eis ! (Jreat Biitain were not iuqiosed by Xev. Zealand. Although it was possible fo. parcels posted in dilTerent nionths tarrive in IJnited Kingdom together, dui to delays in transit, that oosition ivic uu likelv to occur t'requently. In general the shortage of shipping s]>ace had 110 greatly affected the clearaime of parce!.from New Zealand and an average o six shipmeuts mouthly liad been maih sine.e. the- bcginuiug of the year. ' Tke iVIinistef concluiled -by sayinthat ' in view of certain statement.which recently had appeared in ,th press, the Governmeut had cabled tln United Kingdom authoritics asking fo. further information on the melhod o distriliution of parcels sent from New Zealand. Hon. F. Jones, in a short discnssioi: arising from a question regarding tn food parcels to Britain, which was re plied to by Xlr. Webl), said that tln largest single shipment to Britain com prised 35,500 parcels and the grea_tes: number posted in a single month war .S7,dl2. The Governmeut was in touch witli the authorities in Britain with tln view of checking complaiuts ano sniootliing out diOiculties. Mr. M. H. Oram said the averag. postings of parcels had risen to be tween 70.000 and 80,000 monthly, wliicli was a clear indication of the interes Kew Zealand people were taking and the trouble tliev were going to to see ' that Britain was gettiug the larges' possible number of parcels. He consid ered the Governmeut had had amph time to obtain from Britain informatio;: which would overcome the present com plaints.