PARCELS FOR SOLDIERS.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13929, 10 July 1917, Page 8

PARCELS FOR SOLDIERS.

POSTAL REGULATIONS. INFORMATION FOR SENDEES. The Postmaster-General advises that the rales of postage ou parcels addressed to soldiers and nuises of British, New Zealand, Australian, or other colonial or allied troops on active service in Englaud, Egypt, Flanders, France, and Mesopotamia or any other part of the world are as follows:Not exceeding 310 i 3, Not exceeding 71b 2s. Tlio maximum weight is 71b. These rates also apply to parcels addressed to Now Zealand sailors on board any warship manned by a New Zealand irew.

The maximum weight for parcels to soldiers is 71b. PACKETS FOR MEMBERS OF N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCES. Packets weighing not more than lib, addressed to members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces on active service abroad, are accepted at the rate of postage for samples (not exceeding. 4oz Id, every additional 2oz or fraction thereof jjd), though, cotnaining articles of a saleable value. On no account may the wight of lib be, exceeded. Anything heavier must bo sunt as 'a parcel. Correspondence, etc,, for members of Expeditionary Forces is' exempt from war tax.