HOW PRISONERS OF WAR WERE HELPED.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 February 1919, Page 5

HOW PRISONERS OF WAR WERE HELPED.

o Evidence is continually being received of the invaluable nature of the assistance which the public have given towards Prisoners of War by enabling parcels of food and clothing to be dispatched rcguliarly to the Prisoners' Camps. The High Commissioner, Sir Thomas McKenzie recently made a report in connection with the nine prisoners from New Zealand who have been helped through the Church Army's "Prisoners of War Fund." The letter, which will enable contributors to see that their donations have been well spent was dated from the High Commissioner's Office on loth November, and states:—

' * J Pood; parcels were regularly sentf ' up till the date of the armistice being signed. Since that date a full-~ supply of uniaddressed parcels has been dispatched to Rotterdam fox^. distribution, and this supply is .being-y continued. I am glad to assure ;yoii that in ihe majority of eases our parcels have continued . .to; "re&Kh ?-. their destination, and acknowledge- ' ■/' meats have come to hand in due course. With regard to Prisoners of War not yet located, they have, I.r hope, been able to draw from the General Depot at Rotterdam, which is now widely known among those who have been captured, but have not yet reached a permanent internment camp.

Yours truly. (Signed. THOMAS McKENZIE. Rev. F. W. Wibley, Ormondville Vicarage, Hawke 's Bay, N.Z.