CANNED FOOD GIFTS
ATTITUDE OF TROOPS NOT WANTED IN PACIFIC GISBORNE, Sunday. "It is sickening to think of all the work of collecting and ■ preparing parcels and then learn we. are not sending the foods the boys wanted to supplement their rations. .Surely the board's representative in the Pacific could have let us know we were sending the wrong things," said Mrs. R. U. Burke at a meeting of the East Coast Provincial Patriotic Council, discussing the rejection by troops in the Pacific of tinned foods sent from this country. Mrs. Burke said she had been informed that cakes and other gifts had been gratefully received, but that the troops were sick of the sight of canned foods. They refused to touch the products of New Zea> land canning factories, and simply dumped meats sent forward. It had happened for a yepjr or more. It was remarkable that patriotic councils had not been warned to substitute other things for canned goods, which are part of a standard gift parcel to troops. "I feel that the board should be asked to find out why we received no warning," added Mrs. Burke. "We could have saved a lot of food and trouble for voluntary workers if we had known in time."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 215, 11 September 1944, Page 6
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