STANDARD PARCELS
FOR PRISONERS OF WAR ADOPTED BY RED CROSS. ADVANTAGES OF BULK DISTRIBUTION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 19. Standard parcels for prisoners of war dispatched in bulk for distribution by camp leaders instead of being addressed to individuals by najne is a development announced by the managing director of the prisoners of war department of the Red Cross and St. John war organisation. He said the department was now dispatching considerably more than 45,000 parcels a week to Geneva and sometimes the weekly total reached 85,000. The method of bulk distribution had the great advantage of abolishing delays and disappointments entailed when personally addressed parcels followed a prisoner round if, as frequently happened, he’ had been transferred to another camp. It also ensured that all prisoners shared alike in the parcels reaching the camp leader. Next-of-kin might still send quarterly parcels to individual prisoners through the Red Cross.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1941, Page 5
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150STANDARD PARCELS Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1941, Page 5
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