MOBILE CANTEEN.
GIFT FOR OVERSEAS FORCES. ( P.A.) WF.I.LI XGTON. Friday. A mobile canteen, presented to the Xew Zealand overseas forces by the .NewZealand U.S.A., was forma 11 v handed over by Mr. C. \\\ Batten to the Hon. W. Perry, deputy chairman of the Patriotic Fund Board. Mr. Batten said 40.0011 members of the U.S.A. had adopted to-day's soldiers as their younger brothers, and the canteen would be a link between the old soldiers and their successors. It would be fast enough to keep up with a retreating enemy. If : t. was blown up they would save up and buy a new one. | The canteen was exhibited in public I to-day and aroused much interest and I admiration. I =-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 69, 22 March 1941, Page 13
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