NAVY COMFORTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1943, Page 5

NAVY COMFORTS

LEAGUE'S ACTIVITIES

Comforts sent to the men of the Navy and the Fleet Air Arm are summarised in the annual report of the New Zealand Navy League, to be presented to the annual meeting at Wellington next week. Each man leaving New Zealand under Scheme B to join the Royal Navy or the Fleet Air Arm, it says, has been presented with a "blue" bag, containing a long-sleeved, polo-collared pullover, two pairs of socks, a balaclava, a scarf, a pair of gloves or mittens, a body belt, a pair of sea boot stockings, and a hussif. Other men under other descriptions have also received these "blue" bags.

Many hundreds of cases of warm comforts have been dispatched from the War Council depots at Auckland, Otago, and Wellington to the Navy League Comforts Supply, Grand Buildings, London, from where they have been distributed to - the ships of the Royal Navy, the Allied navies, and the Merchant Service.

Although foodstuffs generally are not permitted to be sent to England, an exception has been made in the case of honey for the small ships of the Navy. The council has dispatched to date 29 tons on behalf of Woodford House Girls' School in Hayelock North and their Old Girls' Association. The export duty of l-8d in the pound has been paid by the War Council on behalf of the National Patriotic Fund Board.