BENEFITS FOR TROOPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 January 1943, Page 2

BENEFITS FOR TROOPS

IN PACIFIC & ELSEWHERE AND FOR PRISONERS OF WAR. PLANNED BY PATRIOTIC BOARD. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. New Zealanders in forces in the Pacific, some who are with British units in Ceylon, some who arc in Britain, and others including prisoners of war will benefit from decisions reached yesterday by the Standing Committee of the National Patriotic Fund Board. An endeavour is to be made to procure for troops in the Pacific area an ice cream plant similar to one sent to the Middle East, to provide eight recreation huts in the Pacific area, with generating plants for lighting them, to provide a motor truck for canteen purposes in Fiji, 33 radio sets for various places in New Zealand and 70 for the Pacific, three billiard tables for a naval base and a complete football outfit for Ceylon. A further £20,000 has been sent to the High Commissioner in London for comforts and goods for New Zealanders on service there and it was decided to make a grant of about £3OOO to the International Red Cross at Geneva for work, for prisoners of war. This grant is made on the recommen-. dation of the Joint Council of the Order of St John and the Red Cross. The board would be glad to hear from anybody who is wishing to dispose of an electric lighting plant.