POSTAL FACILITIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1941, Page 6

POSTAL FACILITIES

FOR NEW ZEALANDERS WHEN IN GREECE. SCOPE OF ORGANISATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. An interesting sidelight on the organisation underlying the movement of large bodies of troops on active service is given in a recent report received by Dio Postal Department from the New Zealand Base Post Office in the Middle East, stated the Postmaster-General. Mr Webb, today. As soon as it was known that New Zealand troops were proceeding to Greece, steps were taken to provide] postal facilities there for the men.] | Units of the base post office were sent! to Greece, and a field post office was] established at Athens. A mail van with! a military officer in attendance on the passenger express from Piraeus provided a last service to the railheads of the British and Imperial Forces located in the eastern sector of Greece. From Die New Zealand railheads mails were distributed by the divisional postal unit with the New Zealand Brigade, delivery being made to the men bv postal orderlies. “It is understood," said Mr Webb. I "that the bulk of the mails wore de-! .".patched between Egypt and Greece by] air. and it is known that all mails sent Io Greece up Io March 31 were deliver-! od to the troops. There may, however, have been small losses of mails after that, date.” I