PARCELS SENT TO TROOPS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23203, 14 December 1940, Page 10

PARCELS SENT TO TROOPS

General Freyberg’s Appreciation Appreciation of the parcels forwarded to the New Zealand troops in Egypt is expressed by Major-General B. C. Freyberg, V.C., in a letter to the president of the National Patriotic Fund

Board; a copy of which has been received at the office of the Canterbury District Council. General Freyberg writes; “Beside me as I dictate this letter is a pile of good things which

might have come from a Christmas hamper—tins of barley sugar, coffee and milk nugget, some cheese, and last, but not least, a cake. I should say I think it is a cake, but I will not know until I break the solder and enjoy it in less civilised surroundings in the desert away from- Maadi Camp. “There is no doubt the Patriotic Fund gifts were greatly appreciated, and the day of opening the parcels was like a birthday for everybody. If-those who were responsible for getting together this generous collection of gift parcels could have seen them being distributed and opened here in Egypt, I know they would have felt their trouble had been well repaid. May I thank you on behalf of all ranks for giving us. such a pleasant surprise. “May I also, thank • you for the great help your fund has been to the New Zealand Expeditionary;- Force as a whole. No troops •are better cared for than ours.—Bernard