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GIFT GOODS

———» " • GREATLY IN DEMAND IN LIBYA PATRIOTIC FUND BOARD REPORT. RECEIVED FROM COLONEL WAITE. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In a despatch, received at the end of last week, by the National Patriotic Fund Board from its Commissioner. Lieutenant-Colonel Waite, he says the demands made by the Libyan campaign resulted in a great scarcity of transport for handling the gift goods, and the mobile canteens which arrived with one shipment were pressed into service, as supply trucks on the Alexandria run up to the Western Desert base. Another problem was storage. There was little safe storage room available, Colonel Waite said. Every effort was being made to get parcels distributed by Christmas. The arrival of comforts at the height of the Libyan campaign, however, presented difficulties. ’He mentions the case of railway and survey companies, who were' scattered from Tobruk to Port Sudan, Akaba and Cyprus. Referring to the work carried out for the Board by the Y.M.C.A., Col. Waite said the demands on this service will be heavy. Large free issues of cigarettes, etc., and provision of toilet and other articles will be required. It is probable that some of the Y.M.C.A. transport has been lost and the service will be lucky not to have lost some of its personnel. The report states that when New Zealand units were refitting in the Western Desert, after the first phase of the battle, the patriotic funds were drawn upon, to meet an urgent call for fresh vegetables, for 5,000 men concentrated at an advanced base. Fruit was also wanted, and 5,000 oranges were withdrawn from rations at the base camp at Maadi and these, with 5,000 pies, were sent up by lorry. Vegetables purchased from the patriotic funds comprised 2,200 cauliflowers and cabbages and about 8001 b each of tomatoes and carrots. In addition Colonel Waite arranged for a truck to call at Alexandria for sufficient tobacco and cigarettes and for other trucks to take up 5,000 gift parcels. Large stocks of toilet and shaving gear were also obtained in Alexandria. “The needs are like those of Greece and Crete over again,” Colonel Waite added.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1941, Page 7

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GIFT GOODS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1941, Page 7

GIFT GOODS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1941, Page 7

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