UNDELIVERED MAILS FOR SOLDIERS
I'-- DELUGE AT HIGH COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE. : By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright - (Rec. January 10, 5.15 p.m.) i London, January 9. ... .Tho New Zealand High Commis- » teioncr's Office in London is 'snowed' i under by. undelivered Dardanelles mails. ; iTwo hundred bags arc arriving daily, '■..With' letters, newspapers, and parcels / dating back to April and May. A ' dozen sorters are busy witli tlio mails. ; [.The Defence Minister (Hon. Jas. Men), when the foregoing ■ cablegram 'was shown to him last niglit, said that ;.ho knew nothing of'any such state of '-.'affairs as fKc. cable message referred to. ; ;"No such information lias conic to mo ; from the Higli Commissioner," he said, "and I am sure he would have lot me .- know if things'were as represented. In 'the early stages, after our troops left .here, all.-.the mails went to London, but - 'that; practice was soon discontinued, .; and'-since then all our mails have gone to Egypt by the Suez route."!!
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2666, 11 January 1916, Page 6
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156UNDELIVERED MAILS FOR SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2666, 11 January 1916, Page 6
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