SYDNEY VISITOR

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1944, Page 3

SYDNEY VISITOR

X.Z. WAR UNIT'S WORK A former Aucklander, who has lived in Australia since she was married, Mrs. Linda Ferguson, honorary organising secretary of the New Zealand Auxiliary War Unit of New South Wales, has arrived in Wellington. She has come to the Dominion partly on official business for the War Unit and partly to visit relatives. Her only son is serving with the A.I.F. in New Guinea.

In an interview she said she was interested to find out all she could about the war work being done by voluntary organisations in this country.

The New Zealand Auxiliary War Unit of New South Wales was started at the outbreak of war with the object of providing a home away from home for men of the New Zealand Services passing through Sydney.

'•'Thousands have been entertained in our rooms in Martin Place," said .Mrs. Ferguson, "and we really have been quite a help to them. There is a canteen, and also a restroom, and we take the men for outings and even do their mending and washing and ironing for'them. We have the gratification of knowing that the men feel there is one part of Sydney that belongs to them." The unit is subsidised by the National Patriotic Fund Board of New Zealand, but the Sydney Trade and Tourist Bureau has given the rooms free of charge.