AVAL COMFORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 93, 21 April 1941, Page 5

AVAL COMFORTS.

I • i COMMENT BY RATING. NOTHING FROM DOMINION. A claim that statements made in New' Zealand concerning comforts sent to Xew Zealand naval ratings is "all boloney" is made in a letter from an Auckland able seaman-serving oversea*, with the Navy. The letter is dated March 10, 1941. j "I liaVe been reading through the, papers you sent me," lie writes, "and II notice a piece about comforts for New Zealand naval ratings over here. I have > seen similar pieces at different times in| . other papers about what is being done! for us, and it makes me mad, as it is J ' all "boloney.' 1 "I, for one. have never received al i single thing like that, and I know at ■ least a dozen others in the same posiI tion. I have even had to buy myself an overcoat out of my own pocket, cost- I ing me £2 2/, as well as buying myself ' L warm winter underclothes. 1 "It is not a fair go when a man gives j , up everything he ever had aful loved to: come over here and tlieu have to part| > out his hard-earned pocket money to j [ clothe himself —and then to read in tlicj . papers about what is being done for our." , comfort. The truth should be tnkl. It | is not as though tlicv cannot iin<l outi [ where we are. a.s New Zealand House!' . I has all our addresses."' ' l| The writer mentions that parcels have 1 jbeen received from school children in 1 ) Manchester. '"It really fills me up to! 1 . think that little children would do this| ( 1 for me. whom they have never seen,j l when they have so much to put up with < 5 themselves these days." comments the £ , writer. "It is true that a little child|a shall lead them." j 1 === .|« The oldest secret trade process is : r 1 probably either the method of inlaying!( ? the hardest steel with gold and silver| (which seems to have been first practised | - at Damascus ages ago. aDd is still known| . only to the Syrian smiths and their j ,|pupils), or the manufacture of Chinese' c red or vermilion. — I——, 1