WELCOMED BY TROOPS
PATRIOTIC GIFT PARCELS L./CPL. NEIL’S APPRECIATION Appreciation of the good work done by the officers of the National Patriotic Fund Board in the Middle East was expressed by Lance-Corporal J. T. Neil in. replying to the welcome extended by the Mayor, Mr Edwin Edwards, at Friday night’s reception held in the Regent Ballroom. Lance-Corporal Neil said he wished to thank the Paeroa District Patriotic Committee for the parcels he had received while in the Middle East. “After the Sidi Rezegh scrap we did not have too much and the first thing we got was a Patriotic parcel and I can tell you it was welcome,” said Lance-Corporal Neil going on to
express special thanks for the gift parcel he had received from Mr and Mrs W. Bain through the Paeroa District Patriotic Committee. He assured everybody that the boys over there did appreciate the work being done by the Patriotic Committees, saying he had heal’d the boys speak of their appreciation while he had been in the Middle East.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3277, 18 June 1943, Page 3
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172WELCOMED BY TROOPS Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3277, 18 June 1943, Page 3
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