GIFTS FOR OUR TROOPS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2793, 10 June 1916, Page 3

GIFTS FOR OUR TROOPS

-THE-SPORTS' SHILLING FUND,

The Under-Secretary of Internal Affairs has forwarded tho.'following letter to Mr.'H. Amos, of tho Sports' Shilling Gift Committee, with reference to tho tobacco and sweets sent. to. Gallipoli through the agency of the Amateur Sports' Shilling - Gift Fund;—.,

"I have the honour to inform you that a communication has been received. from the High Commissioner in connection with the gifts for the New Zealand troops on activo service,, purchased by Sir Thomas Mackenzie: as a, result of your committee's effort in 'raising' subscriptions for this object during the latter part of last year. The letter covers a statement from the Officer-in-charge of "the Transport Office at Alexandria, showing the gifts received,from London 'and their disposition. Tho statement is as follows "Cases Received.—Tobacco, 385 cases; barley sugar, .380 cases; chocolate, 333 cases. ' "Disposition.—Tobacco: 8-1 cases, G.0.C., Salonika; Bfi cases, G.0.C., 9th Corps; 86 cases, G-0.C., 15th Corps; 85 cases, G.0.C., Anzac; 41 cases, destroyed by fire' on board a transport; total, 385. "Barley Sugar.—All to New Zealand troops. "Chocolate.—lll cases, '0.C.,: New. Zealand Gift Section; 55 cases, G.0.C., Salonika; 5G cases, G.O.C.', 9th Corps;' 50 cases, G.0.C., 15th Corps; 55 cases, G.0.C., Anzac; total, 333." "Lieut-General E. A. Aitliam, G.0.C., Levant Base, addressed tho following letter, to the High" Commissioner iirider date February: -7"I- h.avo-tho ; honour- -to-ac-knowledge,'the receipt of your two letters of "Janirary 20," 191G, "and am desire<l by General Sir- A. J. Murray, -Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean. Expeditionary Force, to express his warm thanks to the New Zealand Amateur Sports' Shilling Gift Committee for. the. gifts which they have so generously dispatched for issue to the troops under his orders. Arrangements are being made for tho distribution of the gifts, and it may be of interest to the donors in New Zealand to know that this distribution is likely to be more effectually made at the present time than would have been tho case if the gifts had actually arrived in time for Christmas, when tlie evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula was in progress."