LETTERS FROM PILOTS ON SERVICE
LONG DELAY IN TRANSIT TO N.Z. (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 20. Following the receipt of communications from parents about the rather long interval since receiving the latest letters from sons in the Royal Air Force, the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) cabled the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London (Mr W. J. Jordan) asking if there was any special reason for the delay. Mr Jordan replied that, apart from the change over from air to sea mail, censorship and irregularity of steamer sailings, he had been advised that there was no special reason for delay except that since the outbreak of war routine letter writing had been interrupted by service conditions, including frequent change of station and lack of opportunity through intensive training. “Please reassure parents,” Mr Jordan added. “I am closely watching the interests of all serving New Zealanders here.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24005, 21 December 1939, Page 6
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