PARCELS FOR SOLDIERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1940, Page 6

PARCELS FOR SOLDIERS

AID FROM PATRIOTIC FUND NATIONAL BOARD'S PLANS. BIG ORDER FOR KNITTING OF BALACLAVAS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The National Patriotic Fund Board plans, with the co-operation of provincial councils, to have forwarded in troopships taking the Second Echelon a parcel for each member of the First Echelon, irrespective of his place of enlistment or the fact that lie may have received parcels from relatives and others.

The suggested list of contents, of parcels has been drawn up as follows: Handkerchief, preferably khaki, one tin of tobacco or cigarettes, tin of milk or coffee and milk or potted meat, tin of sweets or cake or small cakes, pair of black bootlaces, one pound of tin fruit and sometimes a small scribbling block or pack of playing cards. The Auckland Provincial Council is being asked to provide 2345 parcels, Canterbury 1015, East Coast 157. Hawke's Bay 350, Nelson 192. Marlborough 88, Otago 6G5. Southland 319. Taranaki 322. Wellington 1418, Westland 129. Opportunity is also presented to knitters as the result of action by the board, the Army. Navy and Air Force requiring 14,000 balaclavas which the provincial councils arc being asked to have knitted according to a quota on a population basis. The board has purchased a fair quantity of wool which is being supplied to patriotic councils direct from the mill. Balaclavas must be knitted to a pattern as forwarded to the councils.