SEEN BY MR. FRASER
PARCELS FOR WAR
PRISONERS
(Rec. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 18.
Mr. P Fraser visited the main London packing centre for fool parcels for British prisoners of war and saw some 72.000 Christmas parcels being wrapped and dispatched.
Mr. Fraser met Mrs. Beamish, sister-in-law of Rear-Admiral T. P. H. Beamish. M.P. Mrs. Beamish's son is a prisoner of war in Germany. Her daughter, Miss Helen H. Beamish, is a teacher at St. Hilda's Collegiate School, Dunedin. Mr. Fraser made a note of her name and address, and said: '"I shall get in touch with her." Mr. Fraser also inspected a group of Red Cross and Order of St. John Ambulances, including a flying column with a mobile first-aid van, a mobile kitchen, and a food and stores van.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 7
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