COMFORTS FOR MEN GOING OVERSEAS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 87, 6 January 1940, Page 12

COMFORTS FOR MEN GOING OVERSEAS

Gifts Officers Appointed

To ensure that, the troops receive the comforts provided for them, and also that these gifts are under proper control, the Army authorities, at the request, of tlie National Patriotic Fund Board, have appointed six gifts officers who are to undertake these duties on transports. They will have full charge of tlie board's comforts aboard ship. Tlie duties of these officers are to set? (hat a committee is appointed on each ship to promote all kinds of games and entertainments, and io act as Hie issuing agent, of the comforts to the committees. A specific instruction to them will ensure tlie consumption of till the edible goods during tlie voyage. 'The gifts officer, therefore, stands as tlie controller of comforts, which are to be kept entirely separate from tlie quartermaster’s store, thus ■ensuring that the comforts which have been supplied for the troops will be used by and for the rank and file. The chairman of the standing subcommittee of tlie National Patriotic ■Council, Mr. R. 11. Nimino, in a statement yesterday, expressed thanks to the workers who undertook and completed very efficiently in a comparatively short time the big job of packing tlie comforts purchased by the board for the men of tlie First Echelon of the New Zealand Forces. Mr. Niinnio said that tlie work had been splendidly done, and he desired to thank publicly those rc>sp<>ij-.sible. Tie-, work had been done, when most other people wore enjoying their Christmas and New Year holidays, those who had tackled tlie job having given freely of their time and energies that tlie troops might have comforts aboard ship. The Y.M.C.A. staff and also officials of the association, as well as others, had given very valuable assistance, and it was grea Uy app rec i a ted. Special thanks. lie added, were due to Sir. A. McM. Patterson, of tlie Patriotic Fund Board staff. Mr. Patterson had had a multiplicity of duties to attend 10. He had worked throughout tlie holiday period and had been indefatigable in his efforts to see that everything was ready in time.