PARCELS APPRECIATED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 147, 3 April 1941, Page 4

PARCELS APPRECIATED

GIFTS SENT FflpM ASHBURTON. LETTERS FROM RECIPIENTS. e Several letters expressing apjmeciation. of parcels sent by the Ashburton Red Cross and Ashburton Entertainments have been received this week from members of the New Zealand forces in the Middle East. Sister E. M. Lucas, writing from the New Zealand General Hospital, says: “I wish to thank you very much for the useful gift that readied me the other day. it was a. very pleasant surprise. The patriotic societies and the Red Cross at home are certainly doing a great wogk and their efforts are very much appreciated in this part of the world. Without the Red Cross I sometimes wonder how wo would manage our work in the hospitals, and the pleasure that is from tho patriotic parcels is,, unlimited. They have given much happiness not only to our unit hut also throughout the whole of the N.Z.B.F. Thanking ygh and the people of Ashburton generally.” Sapper R. Macklans writes that- he has received two parcels from the organisations in Ashburton and expresses his thanks for them, while Sapper W. J. Alexander says: —“ft is nice to know that we have people at home in New Zealand thinking of us and doing their share to make ns comfortable, and I am sure every soldier appreciates what is being done for him. We arc all in the best of health, But we hope it will not be long before we are back in our own country, as New Zealand is the best country I have seen.” “I have found the balaclavas very useful,” writes Private Lance Newton. “I did not realise that they would over be needed in this country.”