PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1943, Page 4

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

NEW ZEALANDERS IN BRITAIN.

GENEROUS CHRISTMAS DONATION. Good work is being done for New Zealand service personnel in the United Kingdom by the New Zealand War Services’ Association. This organisation, which draws upon the National Patriotic Fund Board in New Zealand for finance and receives supplies of comforts through the same source, is headed by the High Commissioner (Mr AV. J. Jordan), who makes a point of keeping in touch with the men of this country. Recently a letter was received from Major H. B. Robertson, N.Z.M.C,, expressing appreciation of a generous Christmas donation to the welfare fund of the Warbrook New Zealand Convalescent/ Home, of which he is in charge. “The patients had a wonderful time,” stated Major Robertson, “and some expressed the thought that they could not have had a better time if they had been back in New Zealand.” At Christmas the New Zealand War Services’ Association sent £lO to each of the New Zealand squadrons in the Royal Air Force so that the men could celebrate Christmas in the way they thought fit. This was money from their homeland, stated Mr Jordan in a letter received by the Patriotic Board recently, and all felt that the contributors in Now Zealand would agree to that course. “Just before Christmas,” Mr Jordan added, “I visited 11 squadrons. and no mistake, they are doing great work. On two occasions I saw the squadrons take off to engage the enemy. At another station they had lost four crews, each consisting of six men. Others, too, had had losses, but there was no let up in their determination and desire to come to grips with the enemy. We may well be proud of our men.”