MOBILE CANTEEN
UNIT REACHES EGYPT. PRESENTED BY NEW ZEALAND R.S.A. (N.Z.E.F. Official News Service.) CAIRO, July 4. The first travelling canteen shipped from New Zealand has arrived in Egypt where it will shortly be employed to assist in the work carried out by the Y.M.C.A. on behalf of the National Patriotic Fund Board. Appropriately enough it bears the badge of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, and as a gift from the men of the first N.Z.E.F. to their successors it combines utility with commonsense. Very shortly it is to be officially handed over by the Overseas Commissioner cf the National Patriotic Fund Board, Lt.-Col. F. Waite, D. 5.0.. to the Y.M.C.A. It is intended to gather as many of the returned soldiers from the Great War as possible for the occasion. • When the second contingent was in England, the Y.M.C.A. had the use of four travelling canteens —one purchased from the Lowry gift and one from the War Services organisation, and two that were purchased. A mobile picture van was also part of the equipment. Unfortunately all these had to be left behind when the move to the Middle East was made. This canteen given by the Returned Soldiers' Association, is sufficiently large to enable it to carry a portable motion picture projector in addition to the normal stock, and for that reason it will be particularly useful. The Overseas Commissioner of the .New Zealand Y.M.C.A., Mr H. W. Shove, is very keen on developing the cinema side of the activities of travelling canteens. He said that already he has been able to screen several films that had been taken of New Zealand soldiers with a 16 mm. camera. These had been very well received by the troops. To meet the evident demand for films of the 16 mm. type for the entertainment of the soldiers, Mr Shove suggests that people in New Zealand who have- cameras of that size and have films available should communicate with the secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board, Wellington, who will forward them overseas. Films shewing current events in New Zealand or scenes that are well known to the men serving in the Middle East will be most acceptable.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1941, Page 2
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367MOBILE CANTEEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1941, Page 2
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