COMFORTS FOR K FORCE

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27094, 18 July 1953, Page 2

COMFORTS FOR K FORCE

WORK OF CHRISTCHURCH COMMITTEE

Since September, 1951, when the Comforts for Korea Committee was formed, many New Zealanders serving in Korea have received food parcels sent at regular intervals. At first, parcels were sent to Christchurch men only, but men from all parts of Canterbury were later included. After financial assistance from a Wellington businessman’s organisation, the committee began to send parcels to all New Zealanders. To date, 1021 parcels, each weighing 71b, have been sent to individual soldiers in Korea. The contents usually include fruit cake, and small but necessary goods such as razor blades and handkerchiefs. The parcels sent in January this year consisted wholly of tinned goods. “Since the committee was formed, we have received donations totalling £looo,’ said the president (Mrs G. H. Watts) yesterday. “Members of K Force have at times been very restless and homesick, according to letters received from some of them,” Mrs Watts said. “Newspapers, which have been .sent by the organisation, are appreciated most of all.”

The parcels, which are valued at £1 to 245, are sent to Korea at a reduced postage of 2s 9d.