MAILS FOR EGYPT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 250, 19 September 1940, Page 8

MAILS FOR EGYPT.

REGULAR ARRIVALS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 18. “Advices received, by the Post Office continue to show increased regularity in the arrival of mails in Egypt for New Zealand Forces in the East,” stated the Postmaster-General (Hon. P. C. Webb), this evening. “At the end of last month a large quantity of mail matter which had been dispatched from New Zealand in May and which had been 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 and 98 bags of parcels dispatched early in May, which are believed to have been lost, and 200 of letters and 143 bags of parcels which were on board vessels that were diverted after their 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 ? ” continued the Minister, “surface mails from Egypt have reached the Dominion regularly, mails having been received on August 6, 20, 27, and on- September 8. “Air mails both to and from the forces in Egypt have added appreciably to the frequency of exchanges. With a • twice-weekly service operating over the Cairo-Sydney sectiou of the Empire service and the regular mail exchanges by sea and air between New Zealand and Australia, not a week goes by without one or more air mails being received from or dispatched to the Base, Post Office in Egypt.”