PATRIOTIC BOARD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1941, Page 6

PATRIOTIC BOARD

<, WORK OE Till; OVERSEAS COMMISSIONER PROBLEMS d ACTIVITIES IN LONDON. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WAI TE’S REPORT. ißy Telegraph—Press Association.! WELLINGTON. This Day. A report received by the National Patriotic Fund Board from its Overseas Commissioner, Lieu tenant-Colonel F. Waite, describes the mention in

r. watte, uesermes me position in London and how the staff has been gallantly carrying on in unselfish devotion to duty. Postal and telegraph delays are such that Lieutenant-Colonel Waite finds it necessary to wait on the principals' concerned rather than try| these other means of communication. ’ This, however, means a great deal of I 1 running about, sometimes with little ( f Success. He gives details < f several > agencies or channels through which • 1 he is working. The New Zealand! • Forces Club, formerly the Italian 1 Club, is open to all men and women ' ’’’ of the armed forces, this being ini some slight return for the hospitality j given to New Zealanders by other service clubs The club is the rallying! point for all New Zealanders wishing! io share in war work Lieutenant-1 Colonel Waite praises the work done I for the board by the New Zealand i ; V.M.C.A. and the work, particularly I lin Connection with the equipping <>!’' 1 hospitals and convalescent Iwme:,. of I , Dr Alexander Gillies since his arrival ’ I from New Zealand. Dr Gillies hasl 1 |also been carrying out negobaiituts ml ' gel .I’2 monthly to each of the New; "! Zealand prisoners of war. ■J Lieutenant-Colonel Waite refers mi ' | steps taken to make hospimfi. for New J I Zealanders more comfortable and mi I quicken imtificalmn when men are; b sent to hospital, so that they may b«-j I visited without delay bv padres and ; I lady visitors. J