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ENTERTAINMENT OF TROOPS. NEW ZEALANDERS IN SYDNEY. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 4, The work of 500 New Zealanders domiciled .in Sydney who have formed an organisation to provide comforts, hospitality and recreational facilities for New Zealand personnel passing through the city, was warmly praised by the Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) to-day. - “This organisation, which is known as the New Zealand Auxiliary War Unit of New South Wales, is doing a splendid job of work,” said the Minister, “and it is anxiotis to do still more.”
In fact, added Mr Jones, he had received a request from the committee to advise all service personnel that a warm welcome awaited, them in Sydney should they be passing through, and he was quite sure New Zealanders would appreciate meeting their felloW countrymen in Australia.
Rooftis for the auxiliary had been made available at the New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau, No. 14 Maiftin Place, Sydney, and these were used as a meeting place, library, restroom and inquiry bureaß.. Entertainments, such as -parties, tours, and harbour trips, were arrahged for New. Zealand servicemen, and Comforts such as cigafettes, socks and balaclavas were supplied free to men in need of them, and, in the case of men returning from overseas, full kits had been supplied. Invalided and wounded soldiers werb Visited in hospital and given fruit and tobacco, etc.
All the work* was on a voluntary basis, said Mr Jones, and the funds of the unit were kept up by donations from members. However, a' subsidy was being made in future from the New Zealand Patriotic Fund Board. Patrons ,of the unit were Lady Julius and Mr IV. Taylor, the New Zealand Trade Commissioner, while the chairman and honorary organising secretary were Mr A. R: Cameron and Mrs Linda Ferguson respectively. ,
Mr Jones added that the New -Zealand! Government deeply appreciated the efforts of these New Zealanders to help Service personnel Who were visiting Sydney.-
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 251, 5 August 1941, Page 2
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