PARCEL POST FOR SOLDIERS.
A NEW .VRUANDEMEN-T. (PUESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.! WELLINGTON, Aug. 11. 'flic Minister for Defence stated today that, in order to improve the nareels service between New Zealand and Gallipoli, he was arranging with the Postmaster-General that parcels should, in future, go direct to Egypt. Their distribution from Egypt would be arranged by the New Zealand base at Alexandria. ■Colonel Essen, the officer commanding the base at Alexandria, has provided the Defence Minister with a report on tii© postal arrangements there. Ho states that the arrangements generally work well, and _ tindelays that have occurred sometimes in-the delivery of parcels have been due to the despatch of the bags from New Zealand, via England, to Egypt. This trouble will be overcome by sending parcels direct to Egypt.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4006, 12 August 1915, Page 5
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128PARCEL POST FOR SOLDIERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4006, 12 August 1915, Page 5
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