CHOCOLATE FOR FORCES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1943, Page 2

CHOCOLATE FOR FORCES

POSTAL SERVICE TO BE INAUGURATED. READY FOR OPERATION IN JANUARY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.! WELLINGTON, This Day. A postal chocolate service to New Zealand service personnel overseas is to be inaugurated by the National Patriotic Fund Board on January 17. Making this announcement yesterday afternoon before the conclusion of the Dominion patriotic conference, Mr G. A. Hayden, secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board, said that the board had been operating a postal tobacco scheme successfully for some time. The new service would cater for those who wished to send chocolates to members of the New Zealand Forces overseas and who now found difficulty in buying readily from the retail shops sufficient chocolate for this purpose. Arrangements had been made for the manufacture of chocolate which would withstand tropical conditions. When the scheme was ready for operation, said Mr Hayden, special order forms would be available at the post offices throughout the Dominion. The responsibility of packing and sending the parcels would bq undertaken entirely by the board. For 5s 6d four half-pound blocks of chocolate would be packed, posted and dispatched overseas in a special container. If sent privately in the ordinary way the chocolate, if it were available, plus the container, and the postage, would cost 7s 9d.

Mr Hayden emphasised that the service would not be ready for operation till January 17, and added that further particulars would be announced before then. „