BY EVERY SURFACE MAIL
NEWSPAPERS FORW ARDED TO MID LE EAST ' (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) Wellington, This Day "Newspapers are forwarded to the | Middle East "by every surface mar . i despatch from New Zealand.” said the Postmaster—General (Mr Webb) in the i House of Representatives yesterday ir reply to an urgent si ion* by Mr H S. S. Kyle (Nation; !. Riccart m). ; The Minister said every possible i shipping opportunity was availed of .. despatches being about four times a month. The average time in transit was at least two mor'hs. sometime? much longer. Postings made at the end of June did not arrive in the Middle East until the middle of September. j Mr Kyle had aske 1 Mr Webb if it J was true that newspapers addressed tc ! soldiers at the front were not being
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 16 October 1941, Page 5
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136BY EVERY SURFACE MAIL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 16 October 1941, Page 5
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