TOBACCO PARCELS
MANY GOING TO FORCES OVERSEAS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. From January 15 this year to October 20—approximately nine months—4o,soo orders were received under the National Patriotic Fund Board’s postal tobacco service, making 77,000 orders in 21 months since the inauguration of the service. Of the orders received this year, approximately 28,000 were in respect of personnel in the Middle East and the balance of New Zealanders in Great Britain, Canada and the Pacific area. As New Zealand troops in the Pacific can buy American tobaccos cheaply, relatives of men there were advised not to send them tobacco or cigarettes unless they were specifically requested.
The whole of the packing of tobacco parcels is clone on the board’s premises by voluntary women who day in day out have put up NTsplendid performance. On some days Christmas orders reached 1,000 and the women worked also at night.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1943, Page 2
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149TOBACCO PARCELS Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1943, Page 2
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