SOLDIERS’ PARCELS
PACKING OPERATIONS UNDER WAY. WOMEN'S PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE. Showing remarkable speed which comes with practice members of the Master ton Women’s Patriotic Committee were busy yesterday in a Queen Street shop completing the packing of gift parcels for soldiers overseas. Each quarter the committee meets and quietly gets on with the job in hand without looking for praise or publicity. A glance at the stacks of neatly and stoutly tied parcels is evidence of the work accomplished. With the exception of Greytown, Eketahuna, and Martinborough, all other places in the district from Pahiatua to Featherston are now having their parcels packed by the Masterton Womens’ Patriotic committee, who offered their services in that connection. The district quota of parcels is made up as follows: Pahiatua 250; Eketahuna 150; Akitio 95; Masterton, Mauriceville and Castlepoint 781; Carterton 293; Greytown 150; Martinborough 146 and Featherston 146; total 2010. The committee has a splendid system of packing the parcels. Members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, whose services are kindly made available, open the cases. Sorters assemble the contents of the parcels on a long trestle, busy workers wrap the parcels in newspaper on another, trestle and they are finally wrapped in brown paper and tied securely. The Air Force assistants nail up the cases containing the parcels and they are dispatched to Wellington. People may have their names and addresses inserted in unaddressed parcels for the payment of 10s. For this quota the sum of £36 16s 9d. was received by that method by the Masterton committee. That amount includes a number of small donations made towards the sending of the parcels. Members of all branches of the forces overseas should receive a parcel from the Wairarapa each quarter, provided of course that the parcels reach their destination overseas.
Members of the committee, headed by the Mayoress, Mrs T. Jordan, as president and Mrs G. T. O’Hara Smith as secretary include Mesdames A. Hosking, A. Milne, A. Keir. H. Rishworth, J. Caselberg, T. T. Denbee, W. L. Marchbank, A. Caselberg, E. J. Rich, W. Judd and Misses Kummer, Guild and lorns.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1943, Page 2
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351SOLDIERS’ PARCELS Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1943, Page 2
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