DISPATCH DELAYED
Next-of-Kin Parcels
IN.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 1. Tire Postmaster-General (the Hon. P. C. Webb) has been advised by Mr W. J. Jordan. High Commissioner in London, that on account of the interruption of railway communication in France, the sailing of Red Cross ships from Lisbon to Marseilles has been suspended, consequently there will be delay in the delivery of next-of-kin parcels for prisoners of war in Germany. It is not known when rail communication will be restored, therefore it is not possible to say when parcels now in progress of transmission would reach the addressees. Next-of-kin might decide to defer sending parcels, but if they continued to post parcels they would go forward from New Zealand at the first opportunity. said the Minister. Tire High Commissioner was continuing to post cigarettes and educational book parcels pending the prospect of opening an alternative route to Switzerland. Letters to and from prisoners of war are not affected because they are conveyed between Lisbon and Switzerland by air. It is possible, said the Minister. that the transmission of food parcels might also be affected, but it is known that fairly considerable stocks of food parcels had accumulated in Geneva and would meet the needs of prisoners for some time.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 22934, 3 July 1944, Page 4
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207DISPATCH DELAYED Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 22934, 3 July 1944, Page 4
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