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Z1 Courier
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1940
Z1 Courier was a weekly typewritten troopship magazine printed and published on board His Majesty’s Troopship Z1, the HMT Empress of Canada transporting personnel from the First Echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2nd NZEF) to Egypt between January and February 1940 during World War II.
Edited by E B Moore, the first issue hoped that it didn’t ‘meet with the active disapproval of those on board’ (12 January 1940: 1) despite the lack of newsprint paper making it hard to produce the numbers they would have liked to. It continued that ‘the scope of the paper is not necessarily defined by the contents of this issue’ (12 January 1940: 1) and asked that if all ‘poets, playwrights and ignoble punsters can induce their respective muses to function by Tuesday night of each week, we shall be most grateful’ (12 January 1940: 1).
Featuring gossip and social news, jottings, poems and songs, it was hoped that the magazine would serve as a souvenir of the voyage.
The Z1 courier only published four issues over the month it took to get from New Zealand to Egypt, with the final issue published on 9 February 1940 as they neared their disembarkation at Port Tewfik (Suez Port), Egypt on 12 February 1940.
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