FOR N.Z. FORCES
NUMBER OF ITEMS WANTED NATIONAL PATRIOTIC BOARD Difficulty is being experienced by the National Patriotic Fund Board in meeting requests for razors for patients on the hospital ships and for men in the rest camps and hospitals in • the Pacific area. Razor which will take the three-hole type of blade are re quired and it is felt that if the need is made known there will probably be many men willing to assist the board by, making available spare rdzors which have been put aside and which they have no real use. As electric power is not available
to the New Zealand Forces on a number of the Pacific islands they are garrisoning, there is a demand for kerosene lamps of the Coleman and Aladdin types, also spare mantles and generators for Coieman lamps, and it ?s thought that people in some of the country districts, especially, will be able to help in this direction. Kerosene irons, flat irons, in fact, all irons fitted with a handlp and wnich can be heated by external means —even defective electric irons—are also wanted for the troops in the Pacific. Another requirement is unused gramophone needles, of which there are probably
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3245, 29 March 1943, Page 3
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201FOR N.Z. FORCES Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3245, 29 March 1943, Page 3
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