LETTERS FOR LONELY SOLDIERS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23202, 13 December 1940, Page 10

LETTERS FOR LONELY SOLDIERS

PATRIOTIC BOARD’S INQUIRIES (PBE3S ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, December 12. From time to time people have made known to the National Patriotic Fund Board their willingness to write to lonelv soldiers with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. With a view to ascertaining if there arc genuine cases of this kind, and if there are, to take the necessary steps to sec that letters and personal parcels are directed to them, the secretary of the board has asked the board’s representatives oyerseas to compile a list of names of such soldiers. ~ _ _ A letter received from Mr P. E. S. Long, the board’s representative in Egypt, shows that he has set inquiries in train; but that up to the time his letter was writen, no names had come to hand. "A large number of letters and papers are still arriving addressed to lonely soldiers.” he writes. “These, in most cases, have been hand'd by the postmaster to the Young Men s Christian Association, and have been distributed by them to chaplains and company commanders. Upon receipt of your letter, however, I asked chaplains and others to advise me of the names of people entitled to receive letters and parcels under this heading; but so far no names have come to hand. If it is possible to commie a list. I will do so, and let you have it immediately."