AIR MAIL LETTERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 287, 4 December 1941, Page 6

AIR MAIL LETTERS

When one pays 5/9 postage for an air mail letter, is it right that foreigners are allowed passenger room and our- letters to our brave lads left behind? I know there is a war on, but when our lads post air mail_letters from Home—costing almost 5/ —and they come by surface mail, it is not a fair thing. We hear over the wireless a stern dictatorial voice saying "Don't talk," and yet the Clippers are carrying to and from our shores foreigners, and who knows what these foreigners may do by dropping letters en route, or even by flashing a torch surreptiously? Last war, no women or children were allowed to travel and only very, very few business men. Could not the mail to England be sent via Egypt, and cost less? I often have thought how fbrtunate the soldiers in Egypt were as regards air mail compared with the soldiers or airmen in England, and would be pleased to see the same facilities carried out to the men fighting in England, who have ir.w N , ew J Zea 'and to help the Motherland. PAX.