FOOD PARCELS.
TO MEN SERVING OVERSEAS. POSTMASTER-GENERAL’S ADVICE (P.A.) WELLINGTON* This Day. In connection with a cabled message from London, published in New Zealand newspapers during a week-end, indicating that in order to save shipping space the British Government had banned the sending of food parcels to British and Allied troops and naval men or civilians in Home and foreign waters, the Postmaster-General (the Hon. P. ('. Webb) stated to-day that the New Zealand Post OfTiee had rereived no intimation in the matter from the British authorities. )n (ho circumstances, added the (Minister, there is no reason why people in New Zealand who desired to send foodstuffs to members of Ihe fighting forces nr civilians in places overseas should not continue to do so, meanwhile ovserving, of course, the conditions which have hern imposed in connection with' the dispatch of such parcels from the Dominion.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 85, 21 January 1942, Page 6
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