GIFT SHOP FOR K FORCE

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27211, 1 December 1953, Page 12

GIFT SHOP FOR K FORCE

Monthly Turnover Of About £6OOO (NJZ. Army Information Service) KOREA, November 27. Captain V. J. Duley, M.C., of Masterton, was in the grocery business before he joined K Force as one of its original officers. Now, after a long period as an artillery observation officer, he is back in business again as president of the 16th Field Regiment’s institute, a combined wet canteen, dry canteen, and gift shop organisation with a monthly turnover of about £6OOO. The institute’s dry canteen and gift shop carry about £lOOO worth of stock and a special permit has been obtained to buy 1000 dollars worth of goods a month from an American organisation which is the equivalent of the British N.A.A.F.L American cigarettes and candy are oopular with the New Zealand troops. The Maoris buy all the tins of smoked oysters that the institute can get. The gift shop is well stocked with watches, cameras, necklaces, toys, radios, nylon stockings, gramophones, fishing rods, music boxes, and a wide variety of other goods brought through N.A.A.F.I. or sent directly from Japan. All these gifts are sold to the troops at wholesale prices, which are generally about 10 per cent less than anywhere else. Music boxes, watches and toys seem to have been the most popular Christmas presents