PARCELS FOR SOLDIERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 4 June 1940, Page 5

PARCELS FOR SOLDIERS.

Advice received by the Zone E Patriotic Committee from the authorities gives the following directions to be carried out in connection with the despatch of parcels to troops overseas, and a list of the most suitable gilts, including:—Pipe tobacco, cigarette tobacco, or cigarettes ; soap ; handkerchiefs razor blades, writing materials (envelopes, pad, ink pencil), a tin of milk, coffee and milk, chocolate, fruit, honey, or fruit salts;- a cake or small cakes (in tin) ; a till of sweets (preferably barley sugar). Attention is also drawn to the necessity for s.oap being contained in a sealed tin, so that the odour will not permeate the rest of the parcel. Cigarettes, tobacco, and the like must also be in airtight tins. Each parcel must be packed as tightly as possible with very little packing materia], so that space may be conserved. Donations of parcels or goods for parcels may be left at the Feilding Community Centre, room A, on Fridays, from 1.30 p.m. to 4 p.m. The parcels are required for shipment on June 29, and as far as tho Feilding district is concerned all parcels must be in by'June 21. Since the organisation has been working, a total of 130 parcels has been despatched, made up as follows:—Sixtysix from tim Oroua Federation of ’Women’s Institutes, seven from cash donations made by game players, six from women’s section, Feilding Labour Party, eight from tho Plunket committee for nurses overseas, two from goodsv, donated, and 41 made up of goods purchased from funds.