PRISONERS OF WAR

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 112, 5 February 1919, Page 5

PRISONERS OF WAR

HOW THEY WERE HELPED. Evidence is continually being received of the invaluable nature of the assistance which the public have given towards prisoners of war, by enabling parcels of food and clothing to be dispatched regularly to "the prisoners', cnmps. The- High Commissioner, Sir Thonias Mackenzie, recently made a- report in connection with the nine prisoners from New Zealand 1 who have been helped through the Church Atui/s "Prisoner's of War Fund." The letter, which will enable contributors to see that their donations have been well spent, was dated from the High Commissioner's office on November 15, and states:—

"Food parcels were regularly sent up till the date of tho armistice being signed l . Since that date a full supply of unaddressed parcels' has been dispatched to Rotterdam for distribution, and.this sup. p]y is bcinp continued. I am glnd to assure you that in the majority of cases our parcels; have continued to reach their destination, and acknowledgements havo come to hand in due course. With reRsrd to prisoners of war not yet located, they have, I hope, been able to draw I'roin the general depot at Rotterdam, which is now widely known aniong those who have been captured, 'and have not yet reached a permanent internment /•amp.—Yours truly (Signed) Thoma? Mao kenzie," "Pov. P. W. Whibley, "Ormondville Vicarage, "Hawko's Bay, N7,."