GOOD TEAM WORK

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3268, 26 May 1943, Page 8

GOOD TEAM WORK

ON ARRIVAL IN BRITAIN N.Z. SERVICEMEN’S WELFARE “It is indeed a privilege to be able to make personal contact ■with our sailors, soldiers and airmen,” states the New Zealand High Commissioner in London (Mr Jordan) in a letter to Major T. M. Charters, chairman of the N.Z. Navy League War Council. Referring to the work carried out by the New Zealand War Services’ Association, which represents the New Zealand National Patriotic Fund Board in Britain, Mr Jordan' says:—

“We endeavour to meet our men on arrival here, and we have a friendly talk about what is being done in Britain for their ■welfare and comfort. I always tell them that if there is anything causing them personal anxiety, they are not to hesitate to call at the office or to write to me, as Mrs Jordan and I and the staff here are always ready to do anything we can for them.

“Our Miss Thurston regularly visits men in hospital, and thanks to the National Patriotic Fund, we are able to supply any’- required comforts. Colonel Myers, the commissioner for the Red Cross in London, together with Mr Burdekin, endeavours to meet the needs of our prisoners of war, and the measure of the success of their efforts is shown by the fact that a batch of prisoners in London who had been released in Algeria assured me that the New Zealand prisoners are envied by others on account of the contents of the parcels they receive.

“Altogether there is admirable team work going on here, and I am happy to be surrounded by a band of loyal and energetic workers.”

Air Jordan thanked the Navy League War Council for an expression of appreciation of the work being done for New Zealand servicemen in the United Kingdom.