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Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 February 1948Vol. XVIII, No. 7

No Australia-Tahiti Air

p. 17 · Read in the full issue

Mail

ALTHOUGH letters from Tahiti, bear ing airmail postage, are regularly de livered in Australia, the Australian Post Office refuses to accept mail for de livery to Tahiti by air—everything must go surface mail. This, according to the Australian Postmaster General’s Depart ment, is because there is no reciprocal agreement regarding airmail postage revenue between French Oceania and Australia.

The matter is now under discussion be tween the two countries.

The Australian Department of External Territories has received over £706 from the people of Nauru as a contribution to the Food for Britain Fund.