WOOLLEN COMFORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1941, Page 2

WOOLLEN COMFORTS

FOR TROOPS IN MIDDLE EAST LARGE STOCKS BUILT UP. WORK OF NEW ZEALAND WOMEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 13. Steps have been taken by the National Patriotic Fund Board to augment the stocks of woollen comforts held in the Middle East for winter use by New Zealand troops. Advice has been received that the balance remaining from previous shipments comprises 7,000 scarves, 12.600 pairs or mittens and 1,700 Balaclavas. Since then further consignments of woollen comforts, the work of the women of the Dominion as a whole, have been got together and forwarded from the board’s store in Wellington. Three separate consignments totalled 25,867 scarves, 26,938 pairs of mittens and 26,941 Balaclavas, giving a grand total, taking into account the stocks held in Egypt, of 32,-, 538 pairs of mittens and 28,641 Balaclavas. As more knitted comforts come to hand and an opportunity occurs for their despatch, they will be sent, the object being to build up stocks to about 40,000 of each class of goods. As a result of the splendid response of the womenfolk, there is no lack of supplies, but shipping difficulties tend to cause delay in despatch.