DETAILS OF MAILS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1940, Page 15

DETAILS OF MAILS.

LITTLE FOR GREAT BRITAIN. BULK FOR CANADA AND AMERICA (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. ,i Details of mails on the Niagara were given by the 'Postmaster-General, the Hon. P. C. Webb. He said it comprised SO bags of letters, 3 bag* of parcels and 123 bags of other articles. The bulk of the mail was for the United States and Canada. Except for some 700 letters, which were to have been forwarded by air from Honolulu, the dispatch did not include any New Zealand mails for the United Kingdom or other parts of Europe. ; The details were as follows:—United j States: 19 bags of letters 12 bags of parcels, 64 bags of other article*. Canada: 12,* 11, 29. South America: 5, 0, 3. Honolulu: 3, 3, 2. Suva: 5, 5, 30. Tahiti: 1, %2. Japan: 1, 0, 0. Fanning Island: 4, 2, 3. Philippine Islands, 0, 1, 0. Enclosed in one of'the Honolulu bags were 600 letters for Great Britain, 89 for the United States, seven for Canada and one for France for onward trans - ! mission by air from Honolulu. ' New Zealand mails dispatched by the Niagara covered three weeks' postings in the case of the United States, Canada, Honolulu and Tahiti, lees than a week in the case of South America, two weeks in the case of Fiji, and a month in respect to Fanning Island. There warno accumulation in the case of Jaapn.