CHRISTMAS PARCELS
Mrs Cramer Roberts of Fifth Avenue has received a letter of thanks for a Tauranga Patriotic Society parcel to which she contributed. The letter came from Captain G. R. Kingston, 2nd N.Z. General Hospital, Helwan. It reads: “I was given to-day a parcel sent overseas by you and am writing to thank you for it. We left New in end August and by some strange chance no parcel from New Zealand has reached me. ’ This made your well-select-ed present doubly acceptable: and we shall think of all you good folk aa w r e. enjoy 'the contents. I visited your town in November, 1939, what an age ago that seems. News and parcels from home were most timely on Christmas Day. Most of us are thinking more than ever on this day of home. We are in a* big hospital here quite crowded now- —New Zealanders, Australians, British and Italians. The latter strange wee chaps—they don’t look as if they were dreaming of world domination. The troops we have here are i n good heart. .Greetings to you and your fellow workers. My home town is Timaru.
Maybe chance will give me the good fortune to meet you and thank you all personally for what you have done to help us.”
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13236, 11 January 1941, Page 2
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213CHRISTMAS PARCELS Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13236, 11 January 1941, Page 2
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