A POPULAR SERVICE
The Board's postal tobacco scrvicc has been in operation twelve months. The use being made of the service by the relatives and friends of the men overseas is indicated by the fact that in the twelve months 36,384 parcels were packed and dis~. patched in fulfilment of orders. Many people took advantage of the facilities, and the greatly reduced prices available under the scheme to send cigarettes or tobacco to the men for Christmas, and at one stage, shortly before the last. Christmas mail dispatches, there were some daj r s on which the orders topped the 1000 mark. To mark the first anniversary of the establishment of the service the Prime Minister (the Right. Hon. P. Fraser), who inaugurated the scheme by buying the firs't parcel, attended the packing room and warmly conn gratulated the women who do the packing. They arc members of the Women's War Service Auxiliary in charge of Mrs B. Reid, J.P. Be.slides attending to the thousands of orders, these women last year packed 7000 special Christinas gift parcels for the Board for dispatch to members of detached New Zealand units overseas.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 58, 23 March 1943, Page 4
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190A POPULAR SERVICE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 58, 23 March 1943, Page 4
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