TROOPS IN EGYPT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24423, 8 October 1940, Page 8

TROOPS IN EGYPT

PATRIOTIC FUND GIFTS REPORT BY BOARD’S REPRESENTATIVE WELLINGTON Oct 7. ■ In a report dated September 6 Mr Victor Jopes, who went away as the Patriotic Fund Boards representative in Egypt, mentions that the troops have taken the field. Grants from the fund, had been made to each of the umts on the basis of 5s per head to be spent on fresh fruit and vegetables, cigarettes, reading materials, radios and recreational gear, There had been other substantial payments from the funds and they would serve to underline th'cost involved in providing comforts for the large body of men and the neeu for substantial public support to enable the board to fulfil its responsibility to all members of the forces overSC Mr Jones mentioned, for example, that approximately £3OO had gone for freight on gift goods. £3OO for a new mobile unit. £l3O for■cool drinks for the unit picnics, and 150,000 cigarettes had been distributed to the sick _in hospital. Sight-seeing transportation had been given to over 600 convalescents, four additional radios had been sent to the desert, a gift comprising personal toilet articles and other goods had been placed aboard a ship bringing back discharged men. and £IOU had been advanced for entertainment in port en route. Mr Jones has received an appointment with the British Anny. and Mr F. E. S. Long, another Y.M;C.A. officer, is acting in his stead.