MAILS FOR SOLDIERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1941, Page 6

MAILS FOR SOLDIERS

HUGE VOLUME GOING FORWARD CONSIDERABLE RETURN FLOW. MR. WEBB GIVES SOME FIGURES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “Some idea of the huge volume of mail matter that now goes forward to New Zealand soldiers overseas may be gained from the fact that during the last four weeks no less than 81 tons of soldiers’ mail was despatched overseas." said the Postmaster-General, Mr. P. C. Webb, in a statement today. Parcels comprised 49 tons, newspapers and other reading matter 30 tons, and letters over two tons, the latter including almost a ton of air mail letters, each weighing, for the most part, less than half an ounce. Hence probably between 90,000 and 100,000 air mail letters have been posted to soldiers overseas during the last month. The volume of correspondence received from soldiers overseas is also heavy, except that inward mails consist mainly of letters. A fairly large number of parcels, however, are also received, these containing for the most part souvenirs. Although there has been a slight falling off, there has been also a considerable volume of civilian mail matter, both inwards and outwards, and any falling off has been more than compensated by the heavy traffic for the Expeditionary Force.