PARCELS SENT TO BRITAIN
LAST YEAR’S* TOTAL NOW EXCEEDED
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, November 25. With little more than a month of the present year remaining, bags of parcels packed by the Wellington overseas mail dispatch, depot for Britain has already exceeded last year’s figures of 81,510 bags. On Wednesday postal officials put seals on the 81,716 th bag to be made up in Wellington this year. By Monday this bag, with 6000 others, will be aboard the Haparangi which is to sail on Tuesday for London.
Four shipmefits, amounting to more than 10.000 bags, of parcel mail are expected to leave New Zealand for the United Kingdom up to December 30. The larger part of this total will be bags made up in Wellington. In the last five months more than 250,000 parcels have been sent from New Zealand to Britain. In October 150,945 parcels were sent This is a big increase on the number for June (57,311). The July figure was 12.000, the August figure 83,000, and the September figure 115,000.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25662, 26 November 1948, Page 6
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