FOOD PARCELS
FOR BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR
MR FRASER VISITS PACKING CENTRE. INSPECTION OF AMBULANCES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 9 a.m.)
LONDON, August 18
The New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr P. Fraser, visited the main London packing centre for food parcels for British prisoners of war. He saw some 72,000 Christmas parcels being wrapped .and despatched. Mr Fraser met Mrs Beamish, sister-in-lav/ of Rear-Admiral Beamish. Mrs Beamish's son is a prisoner of war in? Germany and her daughter, Miss Helen H. Beamish, is a teacher at Saint Hilda’s Collegiate School in Dunedin, Mr Fraser made a note of the name and address and said: “I shall get in touch with her.”
Mr Fraser also inspected a group of Red Cross and Saint John ambulances, including a flying column mobile firstaid van and a mobile kitchen and food stores van.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 5
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