SOLDIER’S GRATITUDE

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)

SOLDIER’S GRATITUDE

GIFTS TO MRS HEDDLE NASH NEW ZEALAND EXPERIENCE In just about every city and small town which the English lyric tenor, Heddle Nash, and his wife visited in New Zealand, Mrs Nash presented either socks, scarves or Balaclava

[ caps to any members of the local i choruses or choirs who had enlisted. | She told me of one young man’s j gratitude for her kindly gesture, says ; a writer in a Sydney paper. I It was in Christchurch at the be- | ginning of their tour, and she was

j standing in the wings knitting the I last rows of a scarf, when one of the I singers spoke to her. He told her that j his mother had died and he was soon •to leave the country to join the r Royal Navy in England. He looked ' so unhappy that Mrs Nash tried to ! cheer him, and said, “Well, I’ve just j finished this scarf, so would you like J to have it?” f She thought no more about the gift until, at the next town which they visited, a box of flowers arrived at her hotel with a note from the young man. | Thereafter, at every town, she : found a floral tribute, from the same enthusiast, who, by this time, was on lhe high seas. When she and her husband left New Zealand flowers and chocolates were waiting at the ship