NEW ZEALAND SENDS HONEY TO SUBMARINE MEN
NAVY LEAGUE’S GIFTS TO ROYAL NAVY
i The men of the Royal Navy got 310 J footballs, 500 tins of tobacco, 2000 dart- ' boards. 7032 packs of playing cards, 14,000 books, 16.465 games and puzzles, 60,000 pockets of cigarettes, and large j quantities of boxing gloves from the Navy League Seafarers’ Comforts Supply last year. The success of the League s effort to liven up lonely hours at sea is a tribute to the few workfolk making sports goods and games in Britain; their numbers have been reduced to next to nothing by the call to muni tion making. In addition u> their share in this contribution to cheer the tedium of sea warfare, the men of the submarines get honey, sweets and cakes from the Navy League every month. Hundreds of tins ol honey "have come in from New Zealand and Canada has contributed many consignments of cakes. From South Africa hundreds of sheenskin coats, strongand warm, have coine to England: these are issued only on very special occasions. And the good work of the League includes parcels of shaving tackle, handkerchiefs, razor blades and pyjamas to prisoners of war. __
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 28 August 1942, Page 1
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