SOLDIERS’ COMFORTS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 270, 13 August 1942, Page 6

SOLDIERS’ COMFORTS

Tribute To Patriotic Fund Board "On all sides one hears praise, and appreciation for the great work which is being performed by the National Patriotic Fund Board," states Mr. W. J. Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand in the United Kingdom, in a letter to the secretary of the board. Accompanying Mr. Jordan’s letter was an account of the distribution over recent months by the New Zealand War Services’ Association, London, of shipments of comforts forwarded through the board for New Zealand soldiers, sailors and airmen serving in Great Britain. The statement refers to goods? landed from four ships. The comforts received from one, for example, included 329 cases of gift parcels for Hie Forestry Company, men from New Zealand in the R.A.F., and other New Zealanders; 76 eases of tobacco and cigarettes; 1700 naval parcels, 2G cases of woollen goods’, three eases of cake. By another ship 110 cases of gift parcels for the forestry units were received, and a third ship brought 21 cases of woollen goods, including sheep skin jackets, which were forwarded to ships of Hie North Sea patrol. The other woollen goods in tbit? consignment were distributed to New Zealand personnel serving in the navy. Sale of Comforts Coupons.

Receipts from the sale of comforts contains for the Fighting Forces in Wellington yesterday totalled £452. As on Tuesday, the first day the coupons were offered for tsale, a feature of the collection was that it included a number of cheques for substantial amounts. Among them were contributions of £5O by Miss C. A. Allen; £lO each by Mrs. T. R, Lawson and Mr. Will Appleton; and £5 each by Mrs. McMullinn, Mrs. Beatrice Hassell. ami Mr. W. M. Jack. Whether the amount is large or email, every contribution is appreeiated, and the i.m|wrtant factor is that each one who gives is helping to swell the total and to bring nearer the attainment of the Wellington metropolitan area’s quota of the national total of £1,(MM),000, This is the point that is emphasized by those associated with the appeal—the cumulative effect of giving, with each one playing a part and making a contribution in accordance with his or her circumstances. receipts from the sale of coupons brought the total for two days to £867. The coupons will be on sale again today and .tomorrow.