COMFORTS FOR TROOPS.
GREAT QUANTITIES OF GOODS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 10. The comprehensiveness of the goods sent overseas through the National Patriotic Organisation is shown in the lists of articles shipped with each echelon. They range from pen nibs to icature talking films. Usually about a hundred different classes of goods are put aboard for use on the voyage, including atlases and books, writing material, games, tobacco, and scarves and mittens. In goods not wanted on the voyage are some imposing quantities. For example. with one pr'helon were 5000 oases of apples. 10 843 balaclavas. 57601 b of cake, 9000 gift parcels. 16 cases of malt, 2664 pairs of mittens and gloves, and 2847 scarves, besides biscuits, tinned fruit and meats, soups, malted milk, coffee and cocoa, playing cards, indoor games, etc.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 242, 10 September 1940, Page 8
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134COMFORTS FOR TROOPS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 242, 10 September 1940, Page 8
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