MAILS FOR EGYPT ECHELON

Evening Star, Issue 23685, 19 September 1940, Page 12

MAILS FOR EGYPT ECHELON

MODE REGULAR DELIVERY [Pjju United Pkess Association.] WELLINGTON, September 18. “ Advices received by the Post Office continue to show increased regularity in the arrival of mails in Egypt tor the New Zealand Forces in the East, ■Stated the Postmaster-General (Mi Webb) to-night. “ At the end of last month a large quantity of mail matter which had been despatched from New Zealand in May and had been subjected to heavy delay, was received at the Base Post Office in Egypt This moans that, with certain exceptions, all surface mails despatched from the Dominion up to the end oi June have reached their destination. “ The exceptions comprise 19 bags of letters, etc., and 98 hags of parcels, despatched early in May, which are believed to have been lost, and 200 bags of letters, etc., and 143 bags ol

parcels, which were on board vessels that were diverted after their departure from port. These diverted mails may have reached their destination since the despatch of the advice on which the foregoing 7 statement is based. ■ _ - “ Since the beginning of Ay gust, Mr Webb said, “ surface mails_ from Egypt have reached the Dominion regularly, mails having been received on August 6, 20, and 27, and September 8. It is also pleasing to note that air mails both *to and from the forces in Egypt have added appreciably to the frequency of exchanges. Not a week goes by without one or more air mails being received, from or despatched to the Base Post Office in Egypt.”