TROOPS' WELFARE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 64, 15 March 1940, Page 4

TROOPS' WELFARE

GRAFTS APPROVED

A number of grants to be spent in various ways in the interests of the fighting forces were approved by the National Patriotic Fund Board, yesterday. The meeting was held in the Executive Council Chambers and was presided over by his Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Galway. The. first grant was for £250 for the provision of comforts for troops' at isolated defence stations in New Zealand. Another grant was made for comforts for men stationed at an isolated defence post overseas. A grant was made for furnishings at the Fort Dorset recreation hut and for the Baring Head hut. If drums for the infantry companies | of the Second Echelon are unprocurable in New Zealand, it was decided to make sufficient money available for the purchase overseas of the drums required. It was decided to hold a conference of the board and the provincial patriotic councils early in May to discuss the, unification of methods of dealing with collections and expenditure and also the rehabilitation of the troops on their return to New Zealand, i As the result of another decision, the j billiard-room at the Central District i Mobilisation Camp at Trentham is to be enlarged so that it will take six more tables,-making ten in all. The board is also to provide the extra tables. The board agreed to parcels for prisoners of war being handled through the British Red Cross Society, the board to reimburse the British Red Cross Society for all parcels sent to New Zealand prisoners of war.