Rhodesian Mail Returned
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 5. More than 2000 air mail items, sent from New Zealand to Rhodesia between January 7 and February 10, were returned last Friday bearing special rubber stamps explaining the delay, a Post Office official said today. The mail, normally sent to Rhodesia via Kenya, was delayed when Rhodesia suspended mail services to and from Kenya. Uganda and Tanzania on February 10. The returned mail had now I been reforwarded to Salisbury by special air mail despatched from Wellington on Saturday, to connect with a flight to Johannesburg from Sydney Mail from Australia and ini ternational air mail through that country were being delayed by the postal strike there, the acting Chief Postmaster (Mr G. E. Dow) said today. Mr Dow said that from April 1. when the Australian Postal Workers’ Union decided to work to regulations, there had been air mail delays.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31028, 6 April 1966, Page 3
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150Rhodesian Mail Returned Press, Volume CV, Issue 31028, 6 April 1966, Page 3
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