IMPORTANT ITEM

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 9, 11 January 1941, Page 7

IMPORTANT ITEM

WRITING PAPER FOR FORCES

New Zealanders have the reputation of being among the greatest letterwriters in the world, and there is every indication that this reputation is being upheld by the members of the fighting forces from this country now overseas.

A postal officer in Wellington today confirmed this view. He said that certainly, a very big volume of mail was coming from the New Zealand troops in the Middle East and from those stationed elsewhere as well, and there were also heavy dispatches of mail for the forces from New Zealand, so that their friends and relatives appeared to be playing their part well, too. The introduction of the air-mail rate of 9d to soldiers overseas had increased greatly the volume of air mail by the Tasman flying-boats.

Another index of the attention members of the fighting services are paying to their correspondence is the great amount of writing paper supplied by the National Patriotic Fund Board and several institutional organisations. Some idea of requirements is to be gained from the fact that an order was given by the National Patriotic Fund Board just before Christmas for a supply of writing paper for the armed forces running into one million octavo-size sheets.