ALL ACCOUNTED FOR
MAILS FOR MEN IN EGYPT An advice dated September 26 j received from the New Zealand Base ! Post Office in Egypt indicates that : all surface mails for the troops in ' the Middle East despatched from the I Dominion up to the July 19 have j been accounted for. states the Post- ' master-General. the Hen. P. C. Webb, j Ir. a previous statement, the Minister , added, he had referred to delay in j transit of a considerable quantity of ; mail matter despatched from New j Zealand in May last, the delay hav- I ing been caused by the diversion of ! the conveying vessels. The last of these delayed mails J reached their destination between j September 15 and 26, and with J the giving up as lost of 19 bags ! of letters and 98 bags of parcels despatched from New Zealand between ' the May 6 and 9 last, and which were : on board a vessel that failed to reach '• its destination, all outstanding mails 1 for the forces had been accounted ’ Lot.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21247, 18 October 1940, Page 7
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