WELCOME GIFT
"A TARPAULIN MUSTER"
TROOPS' UNSELFISH GESTURE
A Wellington soldier who dates his letter home from "Somewhere" tells a little story of a communal good turn.
At this "somewhere," the ship, bearing about 4000 troops, met another which was carrying 5000 English soldiers. These men had been at sea for eight weeks, and in the last week had run rather short of supplies: in particular they were right out of tobacco. The writer says that a "tarpaulin muster" of tobacco was organised, and produced about 4000' packets of cigarettes, 1000 tins of pipe tobacco, and over 200 tins of cigarette tobacco, and 'the collection was sent across to the English ship.
"I believe the O.C. in charge - of the troops was astonished to know that it was a gift and they didn't have to pay for it. We may be in a similar position one of these days and someone might help us out. One of the best things in the Army is unselfishness and one is amazed to see to what extent it is carried out, and sorry that as civilians we didn't pull more together,"
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 163, 3 October 1941, Page 3
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188WELCOME GIFT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 163, 3 October 1941, Page 3
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