AIR MAIL FOR SOLDIERS
NO CONCESSION FOR CANADIAN LETTERS [Feb United Press Association.J WELLINGTON, April 15. The Postmaster-General, Hon. P. C. Webb, stated to-day that there appeared to be an impression that the recently-announced cpnctssioh of 3d for
half-ounce letters addressed to members of the British armed forces and despatched by the Empire air service applied also to letters addressed to New Zealand Air Force trainees in Canada. Unfortunately, this was not the case, as Canada was not served by the Empire service. Letters despatched by air for trainees there had to be paid for at full rates—4s a half-ounce if air transport as far as the United States only was desired, or 5s a half-ounce if air transport' to a destination in Canada was required. The department, Mr Weblh said, had no option but to forward by surface mail fetters inadvertently posted at the concession rate of 3d,
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Evening Star, Issue 23861, 16 April 1941, Page 5
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149AIR MAIL FOR SOLDIERS Evening Star, Issue 23861, 16 April 1941, Page 5
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