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ADVICE BY MINISTER WELLINGTON, October 3. Advice to friends and relatives of soldiers serving overseas not to dispatch any more parcels, newspapers, or surface mail letters to members of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Italy or the Middle East up to and including those who left New Zealand with the 11th Reinforcements was given to-day by the Minister of Defence (Mr. Jones). “Under present shipping conditions parcels and newspapers from New Zealand have been taking from six weeks to four months to reach the New Zealand base post office in the Middle East,” said Mr. Jones. “The position does not appear likely to improve, and in view of the fact that all troops up to and including the 11th Reinforcements will be on their way home before Christmas, the need to discourage the posting of parcels to these men is clear. For similar reasons letters to all in the abovementioned category should be sent air mail, instead of by surface mail. This advice does not at present to those who left New Zealand with the 12th or later reinforcements, but further information will be. given from time to time as news of the projected departures for New Zealand from the Middle East or Italy becomes available.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 October 1945, Page 3
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