COMFORTS FOR THE TROOPS

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1917, Page 7

COMFORTS FOR THE TROOPS

POSTAGE ON JOONDENSED MilfK.

A question put by Mr. B. A. Wright to the Postmaster-General in Parliament

was whether ho -will permit tins of condensed milk- (so masked on the parcel) to bo forwarded to soldiers at tho front and to New Zealand seamen in the Navy ai Uie -rate of postage for parcels of lib— viz., 4d? The reply by Sir Joseph Ward is :— "I am prepared to do this in respect o£ condensed milk- only, and until tho weight of tins of condensed milk can be "> reduced to lib gross. But before I can do so, I must consult tho British Post Office. To admit articles of saleable value to the sample-post contravenes tho provisions of the litternation&l Convention, and arrangements for it can only be made direct between, individual 'members of tho Postal Union. The business will l>o takem in hand forthwith; - R.-i» proper to add, "r."weiver, that, though I have no knowledge of such a necessity at the present moment, it may be necessary to exemde semi-liquid matter like condensed milk from the post unless it is packed in stronger receptacles than tho tins it is usually put in. It is known iha,t fteso tins, in the course of their ordinary passage through the post, have leaked. Thereforp I <n»ay find myself required to forhtel the-poetmg of oondensaA milk." ,