PRISONERS OF WAR
FOOD TO BE DISPATCHED FROM NEW ZEALAND. PATRIOTIC BOARD ACTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Following a meeting yesterday of the National Patriotic Fund Board, at which the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, presided, it was announced that the following goods had been ordered for dispatch to prisoners of war by the board in conjunction with the joint council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society:— Twenty-one thousand tins of meat, 21,000 tins of butter, 21,000 tins of jam, 11,000 tins of coffee and milk, and one ton of tinned chocolate.
Arrangements have been made to ship these goods to the International Red Cross organisation at Lisbon, and from there they will be sent, via Geneva, to the prisoners of war camps.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1941, Page 6
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