COMFORTS FOR TROOPS
DISPATCHED BY PATRIOTIC BOARD. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Tn these days of shipping difficulties an opportunity to send comforts away to New Zealand forces overseas is one the Patroitic Board cannot afford to miss. Even though the notice given is short, it is able to make good use of the advice that it will be possible to send, through Sydney, a fresh supply of gift parcels to the First Echelon in Egypt. When it became known that the original consignment had arrived in England with the Second Echelon, and since then taking advantage of splendid offer by shipping companies, the board has been able to despatch Christmas comforts to England for New Zealand soldiers, sailors, airmen and nurses. The notice was very short, but in less than 24 hours six railway trucks had been loaded with 1160 cases of gift parcels and woollen goods and all the necessary consignment papers had been made out. Twenty-three more cases were sent next day by passenger train, making 1183 cases of a total weight of 82 tons.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1940, Page 6
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179COMFORTS FOR TROOPS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1940, Page 6
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