PARCELS FOR GERMANY
N.Z. WAR PRISONERS
INQUIRIES BY MR. FRASER
(Rec. 9 a.m.) . LONDON, August 17.
The New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, has been engaged in conferences with Red Cross and other authorities concerned, with the dispatch of parcels to New Zealand prisoners of war in Germany and else-, where. .
Letters are , already arriving from many New Zealanders who have been transferred from Greece to German camps. Arrangements have been made for the dispatch of food and clothing, the need of which they mention, from London, pending. the receipt of parcels from their own people in New Zealand. Care is taken to ensure priority for parcels from New Zealand, but in the meantime parcels are being packed in London, Uhe contents being paid for out of the New Zealand patriotic funds administered in London.
Mr. Fraser is inquiring into the possibility of a New Zealand representative being located in Geneva to attend to the speedy transfort of New Zealand parcels.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 8
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