OVERSEAS MAILS
DELAY IN DELIVERY. The Post Office intimates that advice has been received from the British Post Office that, due to war conditions, some delay in delivery was occasioned to mails despatched from New Zealand between August 18 and September 1. These mails, which were received in London on October 21. had been forwarded from New Zealand to Austra-i lia for onward despatch by the Empire air service, but. on account of the outbreak of war and the consequent suspension of the “all-up" system, they were diverted in Australia for onward despatch by steamer. The advice received from the British Post Office indicates that no mails from New Zealand are now outstanding. This position also obtains in respect of inward mails from Great Britain.
The only letters now despatched by the Empire air service are those bearing the surcharge of Is Gd per halfounce. Letters prepaid at ordinary rates are despatched by surface means, either in direct vessels or via North America.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1939, Page 5
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163OVERSEAS MAILS Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1939, Page 5
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