FOR N.Z. TROOPS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1943, Page 4

FOR N.Z. TROOPS

PATRIOTIC BOARD COMFORTS

New sJse*lW!4**s ty t*P Knees in the Pacific, some who are with British units in Ceylon, some who are in Britain, and others who are prisoners of war, will benefit from j decisions ihade yesterday by the standing committee of the National Patriotic Fund Board. j Decisipns of the committee were to endeavpur to procure for the troops in the Pacific area an ice-cream plant, similar to the. one sent by the board to the Middle East; to provide eight recreation huts in the Pacific area with eight electricityrgeneratmg plants of the Delcp type for lighting them; to provide a motor truck for canteen purposes in Fiji, 33 radio sets for various places in New Zealand, 70 for use in the Pacific, and three billiard tables for a naval base; to send a complete football outfit to Ceylon for the Kiwi football team, which, is composed of New Zealanders serving with British units there; to send a further £20,000 to the New Zealand -, High Commissioner in London ■ toy comforts and goods for New, Zealanders on servipe in Great Britain; and to make a grant of about £3000 to the International Red Cross m, Geneva for their work for prisoners qf wa.v, the grant being made on the recommendation of the Joint CouoP" of St. John and the Bed Cross. The board would be glad to hear from anyone who wishes to dispose of an electric lighting plant. The Hon W. Perry, M.L.C., pre^ sided over the meeting of the standing committee, and there were also present the Hon. J. G. Coates, Mr. L. O. H. Tripp, Mr E. Brooking, and Mr. U- Combs, M.P.

Antheraea eucalypti, a moth which has caused much damage to pepper trees and gum trees in the Wanganui district, has already made its appearance this yearn About 10 years ago a'moth was found on a railway engine at Fordell and brought to the Wanganui museum, where it was identified as the Australian Antheraea eucalypti. It varies in colour from pale fawn to deep brown. The caterpillar of this moth is of brilliant hue, being a bright green and blue, with an under body of white. The favourite name for the moth among the children is the Emperor Gum.