Reciprocal Visiting
An Englishwoman who entertained New Zealand servicemen in England during the war was a visitor to Invercargill recently. She is Mrs C. R. Parsons, of Morton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, and it was her big hope that during her stay in New Zealand she would renew the friendships with the New Zealanders she had met in England. “I had about 70 New Zealanders at my farm at various times during the war and now I am visiting all the boys who stayed with me,” she said. Mrs Parsons expressed warm appreciation of the food parcels sent to people in Britain from New Zealand. “Without your parcels I don’t think England could survive,” she said. “No one in New Zealand has any right to grumble about lack of things in the shops, not that I have heard them grumble—because they don’t know what real shortages are.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 57, 18 June 1948, Page 6
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144Reciprocal Visiting Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 57, 18 June 1948, Page 6
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