COMFORTS FOR SAILORS
Reports of the dispatch of cases of warm comforts to the Navy League. London, for the benefit of the minesweeping and trawling fleets, were received from the War Council depots in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin. and Wellington at a meeting of the New Zealand Navy League War Council in Wellington presided over by Mr. G. Reid.
Letters of thanks were . read from Sir Sydney Fremantle, chairman of the Navy League, London, and Mr. Reid reported that comforts were also being supplied to our own minesweepers operating off the New Zealand coast, and to. our own boys leaving New Zealarid to join the Royal Navy and the Fleet Air Arm. More than £1000 had-.been received at the head office, Wellington, and handed over to the National Patriotic Fund Board, which is giving assistance to the War Council in its efforts to supply the Navy and Mercantile Marine with warm comforts.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 118, 21 May 1941, Page 4
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151COMFORTS FOR SAILORS Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 118, 21 May 1941, Page 4
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