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IN PARCELS TO TROOPS. ON ACCOUNT OF HIGH DUTIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. A request to the public not to include cigarettes or tobacco in any form in parcels sent to members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Egypt was made last evening by the Postmaster-General and Minister of Defence, Mr Jones. The Minister said he regretted the need for placing any restriction on the contents of parcels for soldiers, but the restriction was necessary in the interests of the soldiers themselves, who, according to advice just received from Major-General Freyberg, in Egypt, were required to pay high rates of duty on cigarettes and tobacco, even when included in post parcels.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1940, Page 4
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117BAN ON TOBACCO Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1940, Page 4
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