TROOPS IN PACIFIC

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 70, 7 May 1943, Page 2

TROOPS IN PACIFIC

NEW CLUB PREMISES

Iwo club buildings for the use of New Zealand troops at New Caledonia are being provided by the National Patriotic Fund Board. There is a lack of suitable building materials on the island and!) eeause of

this the premises have to be prefabricated and shipped from New Zealand. Each will comprise a concert hall, writing room, library and lounges, and there 'will also be provision for showers and boating facilities. At Tonga buildings have been taken over andth esc will be equipped by the board to provide a recreation centre will include fnci'.ities for dances and for playing football, -cricket, besaball and tennis. In addition to these new ventures tlie board some time ago built and equipped a line club building at

Fiji. The Patriotic Board is also, supplying an ice cream manufacturing plant, complete with hardening, holding and ageing rooms. This equipment, for which a contract has been let, is tobe, installed at New Caledonia. The capacity of the plant will be 100 gallons of ice cream a day. An ice cream making plant, which was also given by the Patriotic Board, has been in operation for .some time at the New Zealanders" base camp in the Middle East. The ingredients for making the ice cream are sent from New Zealand by the board and this course will also be followed in the case of the- plan' for the Pacific. Gradually services instituted by the. patriotic organisation for the New Zcaand Forces in the Middle East are being duplicated for the benefit- of the men in the Pacific theatre.