MORE REGULARITY IN ARRIVALS

Southland Times, Issue 24235, 19 September 1940, Page 6

MORE REGULARITY IN ARRIVALS

MAILS FOR FORCES IN EGYPT

(United Press Association)

WELLINGTON, September 18.

“Advices received by the Bost Office continue to show increased regularity in the arrival of mails in Egypt for the New Zealand forces in the East,” stated the Postmaster General (the Hon. P. C. Webb) tonight. “At the end of last month a large quantity of mail matter which had been despatched from New Zealand in May and which had been subjected to a heavy delay was received at the base post office in Egypt. This means that, with certain exceptions, all surface mails despatched from the Dominion up to the end of June have reached then- destination. “The exceptions comprise 19 bags of letters and so on and 98 bags of parcels despatched early in May, which are believed to have been lost, and 200 bags of letters and so on 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 despatch of the advice on which the foregoing statement is based.

“Since the beginning of August surface mails from Egypt have reached the Dominion regularly, mails having been received on August 6, August 20, August 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.”