AIR MAIL FROM EGYPT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23879, 1 February 1941, Page 11

AIR MAIL FROM EGYPT

[by telegraph OWN CORRESPONDENT"! WELLINGTON, Friday Replying to a complaint that the air-mail postal charge on matter from Egypt to New Zealand had been increased from 1 Ocl to Is ;!d the Post Office authorities make 1 lie following continent: "In Decern her telegraphic advice was received from the New Zealand Army authorities 111 Egypt, intimating that the Egyptian authorities proposed to increase the air-mail charge to our soldiers by 50 per cent. The increase was said to he necessary to meet the cost of flying this correspondence from Australia to New Zealand across the Tasnian. The New Zealand Post Office made immediate contact with Australia, and a few days after receipt of the original advice was able to telegraph the Egyptian Post Ollicc intimating that no charge would be made for flying across the Tastuan correspondence for Now Zeiland from our soldiers in Egypt. "Full advice in the matter was telegraphed to the Headquarters of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Egypt:, and in ihe absence of any further report of <1 i(lieully it is assumed that any application of an inciea.sed charge was of short duration."