Christmas Tapes To Servicemen

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31521, 8 November 1967, Page 2

Christmas Tapes To Servicemen

Relations and friends of New Zealand servicemen overseas will be able to send them tape-recorded messages at Christmas time. Taped messages have been sent from the North Island to servicemen for about seven years and last year messages were sent from the South Island. No charges are made for the recordings, which will be taped by Mr J. S. Poulton.j who operated the service last year. “I was a serviceman during the last war and when I was in the desert I heard that the broadcasting service in New Zealand was taking taped messages." he said in Christchurch. Mr Poulton never had an opportunity of receiving or! sending a message and he was i pleased to give the New Zealand troops overseas a chance to hear from relatives at home.

Mr Poulton will take mess-| ages from Canterbury and 1 North Canterbury and | two other recorders based in Timaru and in Dunedin will!

cover the rest of the South Island.

j Mr Poulton. who began rei cording yesterday, said the last day for sending messages i would be November 20. I Messages are not confined Ito relations. Anyone who has la friend is welcome to send greetings. Mr Boulton said [children were especially Wellcome to make a recording. I Each person is limited to three minutes on tape but if there are several members of the family they are allowed three minutes each. If any replies are received from the servicemen, Mr Poulton contacts the relatives. Several replies were received last year. Messages this year will be sent to the Ist New Zealand Infantry Regiment stationed at Terandak, to the Ist New Zealand Infantry Regiment in Vietnam, to the 161 Battery (artillery unit) in South Vietnam, and to the Royal New Zealand Engineers in Thailand, to the 14th Squadron of the R.N.Z.A.F. at Changi in Singapore and to the men on board H.M.N.Z.S. Waikato, stationed in the East.