RECOVERY OF CAPTAIN CHAYTOR
WELLINGTON, May 14
A cable has been received that Captain Chaytor, of the No. 3 Contingent, has now lecovered from his illness
MAILS FOR THE CONTINGENTS.
WELLINGTON, May 14.
The Postal Department- has been advised, in connection with mails for those on active service in South Africa, as follows • — "An army base officer is established at Capetown, and serves as oflice of exchange between civil and -military post offices and centres at which large bodies of troops are located. Field post offices have also been opened nt points along the line of communication, at advanced depots, and with each brigade and division in the field, and mails will b; exchanged between the base office and tbe field offices by ordinary means of communieation provided by the civil administration as opportunity jiifers. When the force is located at a 'distance from any civil post office, an exchange of mails will be exchanged between the camp and the nearest civil office by means of transport vehicles utilised for maintaining supplies
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 15000, 15 May 1900, Page 2
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