NEW SYSTEM OF SENDING TOBACCO TO FORCES
WELLINGTON, September 19.
After the dispatch of the Christmas gift parcels for men of the New Zealand fighting forces. overseas under the National Patriotic Fund Board’s unaddressed gift-parcels scheme, it has been decided by the board to institute a new system of sending tobacco and cigarettes which should assist in ensuring that the individual tastes of the men will be more nearly met The board decided at a meeting today to obtain from the canteens at the training camps in New Zealand particulars showing the popularity of various brands of tobacco and cigarettes with the men in camps and then to buy in accordance with the preference shown by information from the canteens.
The board will send cigarettes and tobacco overseas in bulk. The purchasing will be done by the National Patriotic Fund Board and provincial councils will.be asked to provide the necessary funds. The decision was made by ‘ the board following a recommendation from the conference of provincial council secretaries which sat in Wellington last week.
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Southland Times, Issue 24236, 20 September 1940, Page 6
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174NEW SYSTEM OF SENDING TOBACCO TO FORCES Southland Times, Issue 24236, 20 September 1940, Page 6
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