Postal Charges For

Troops

Letter to the Editor IN your April issue (page 20) is an item stating that letters and small articles may be sent free of charge, per post, to the members of the fighting forces in Papua and New Guinea.

I have written several letters and for warded reading matter to a few of my cobbers in Port Moresby, but the postal official at the Queen Victoria Markets Post Office informs me each time that postage is payable. .

I thought I would let you know this, because if letters, etc., are forwarded to Port without stamps, and the lads have to pay excess postage, it would be hkrd lines on them.

I am, etc.,

Ex-Samarai-Ite.

EDITORIAL NOTE: We showed this letter to the authorities at Sydney GPO and they confirmed that all mail to men serving in the Territories must have stamps affixed to the correct value. They added that the announcement in the daily press of a concession to the fight ing forces was premature —the Federal Government merely had the matter under consideration, but nothing further was done in that direction.