SMART WORK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 9, 22 October 1940, Page 4

SMART WORK.

PARCELS FOR TROOPS OVERSEAS 82 TONS SENT IN ONE DAY. v (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, October 21. In these days of shipping difficulties, opportunity to send comforts to New Zealand forces overseas is one the National Patriotic Fund Boajrd cannot afford to miss, even though the notice given is short, and it was able to make good use of advice that it would be possible to send through Sydney a fresh supply of gift parcels to the First Echelon in Egypt when it became known that the original consignment had arrived in England with the Second Echelon.

Since then, taking advantage of a splendid offer bv a. shipping company, the Board has been able: to dispatch Christmas comforts to England for New Zealand soldiers, sailors, airmen and nurses.

prompt action was required at - 4.4.3 p.m. one day, when the officer in charge of the Board’s goods store in Wellington was advised that one of tlio overseas shipping companies had made available free to the Board cargo space for comforts in the ship to sail from a N/ew Zealand port, hut it would be neoessaiy 10' have the goods on the way by rail to the port of departure not later than the next evening.

The goods store staff got down to the job with a will and by 4 p.m. the following day six tvailway trucks had been loaded with 1160 cases of gift parcels and woollen goods and all the necessary consignment papers made out. This dispatch was followed up the next day I)s' 23 mory cases sent toy a passenger train, making a total of 1183 cases, weighing 82 tons.