GIFT PARCELS FOR EGYPT.
DIFFICULTY OF TRANSIT. [BY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.} WELLINGTON. Friday. The following telegram, dated August 14, has been received by the Prime Minister from the Prime Minister of Australia :— " With reference to your telegram of August 8, I regret that owing.to gifts for Australian troops having been rigorously restricted, and the great difficulty experienced in finding space for the small quantities permitted to be carried, it is quite impossible to provide space to Egypt for New Zealand gift goods." The High Commissioner is being asked, in view of the above, how gift goods can be sent to Egypt from New Zealand. If they are shipped to England will they be sent on to Egypt. No further parcels for prisoners of war are to be despatched from the Dominion, but they will be dealt with by the Sigh Commissioner for New Zealand in London, to whom all moneys should be remitted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16621, 18 August 1917, Page 8
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