PRISONERS OF WAR
■ • ♦ REPORT BY OVERSEAS COMMISSIONER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In a recent report to the National Patriotic Fund Board, Lieut.-Colonel Waite, the overseas commissioner for the Board in the Middle East, states that Sir Duncan Mackenzie, British Red Cross Commissioner in the Middle East, Major Cryer, of the New Zealand Postal Service, and himself were investigating possible quicker and cheaper 'methods of getting air mail letters to prisoners of war in Germany. He makes special mention of Sergeant McColl, the New Zealand representative in the British Prisoners of War Office in Cairo, who deals with all lists from the International Red Cross and picks out New Zealand names. Lieut.-Colonel Waite indicates that special inquiries regarding individuals are not likely to bring results ahead of the, ordinary channels of information. He mentions the trial of five such cases, but no reply has been received, although in three of them full particulars have come through the ordinary channels.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1941, Page 4
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160PRISONERS OF WAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1941, Page 4
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