The gesture of a recent contingent of New Zealand soldiers on their arrival in the Suez Canal zone will not readily be forgotten by a force of “Tommies” on board a British transport. The New Zealanders ascertained that the “Tommies” had run short of cigarettes, so they took up a collection. The result was astounding. They collected 25,000 cigarettes, 1500 2oz. tins of tobacco, 2000 packets of cigarette papers, 500 tins of pipe tobacco, '5OOO boxes of matches, and two biscuit tins of sweets. Parcels were also sent over to the other ship for the British nurses. The Navy did its part by supplying a tender to take the gifts from one ship to another. A Dunedin boy, writing of the incident, said the “Tommies” lined the ship and cheered as only Englishmen can.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1941, Page 5
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