PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 68, 30 April 1943, Page 2

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

NEW ZEALANDERS IN BRITAIN Good work is being done for New Zealand service personnel in the United Kingdom by the New Zealand War Services' Association. This organisatidn, which draws upon the National Patriotic Fund. Board in New Zealand for finance and receives supplies of comforts through the same source, is headed by the High Commissioner (Mr W. J. Jordan), who makes a point of keeping in touch with the men of this country. Recently a letter was received from Major H. B. Robertsbn, N.Z.M.C., expressing appreciation of a generous Christmas donation to the welfare fund of the Warbrook New Zealand Convalescent Home, of which he is; in charge.. "The patients had a wonderful time" stated Major Robertson, "and some expressed the thought that they could not have had a better time • m if they had been back in New Zealand." At Christmas the New Zealand War Services' Association sent £10 to each of the New Zea'land squadrons in the Royal Air Force, so that the men could celebrate Christmas in the way they thought lit. This was money from their homeland, stated Mr Jordan in a letter received by the Patriotic Board a'll felt that the contributors in New Zealand would agree, to that course. "Just before Christmas," Mr Jordan added, "I visited 11 squadrons, and no mistake, they are doing great work. On two occasions I saw the squadrons take off to engage the enenjv. At another .station they had lost four crews, each consisting of six men. Others, too, had had losses, but there was no let up in their determination and desire to come to grips with the enemy. We. may well be proud of our men.''