SOLDIERS’ LETTERS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5351, 7 February 1916, Page 3

SOLDIERS’ LETTERS.

A returned soldier, now in Auckland, has just received six large official envelopes, containing 50 letters originally addressed to him from New Zealand and Australia, while he was on active service at Gallipoli and in the hospital in Egypt, and some of them seem to have been following him round in random fashion for months (says the New Zealand Herald). He states that some of the letters were even sent to England, though he was never there. Others show, from their postmarks, that they have been to the hospital at Pont de Koubbeh. where he was a patient;' but, as no date is given, it cannot be ascertained with certainty whether they arrived while he was under treatment. In sane cases, however, it is clear that the letters were in circuit while he was either in hospital or the convalescent home. The point raised by (die addressee is why the New Zea- ’ land postal authorities, in Egypt could not have ascertained from the hospital records that he had gone on from there to the home, and have traced him to liis whereabouts. In the interests of comtades who are still on service. he hones for more thorough and systematic search in the hospitals and homes before the quest by the ppst office is given up as hopeless, and correspondence for news-hungry soldiers is turned back to its place of orig’n.