WELFARE SERVICES
WORK IN NORTH AFRICA. MOBILE CINEMAS POPULAR. A brief note received by the secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board from Lieutenant-Colonel Waite, the board’s Commissioner in North Africa, indicates that the welfare services organised for the New Zealand forces have kept well up with the New Zealand Division in the fighting that has taken place recently. The letter was written from Tripoli early in March, when Colonel Waite was en route to Ben Gardane.
“I came up with a mobile cinema, taking eight days from Cairo,” he says. “Tobruk and Benghazi are terrible wrecks of places. From Agedabia to Misurata is just one long waste of sand and salty marsh. The mobile cinemas are doing great work around here, serving everybody. The Kiwi Concert Party has also been a great success. The difficulty as far as canteens are concerned is getting supplies. Land transport is long, and heavy on trucks. Sea transport naturally gives welfare services a very low priority, but the New Zealand Y.M.C.A. men are doing great work. When I get back to Cairo I will send you as full a report as I can.”
Colonel Waite wrote on Italian paper which had fallen into British hands when Tripoli was taken. The paper was headed by the name of an Italian Fascist organisation and also carried a message in Italian from Mussolini in one corner.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1943, Page 4
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