APPEAL FOR BOOKS
Thousands of books h »-c been given by New Zealanders to the National Patriotic Fund Board since the war began. "Yet more urgently than ever comes an appeal from the Middle East for more books," states an appeal issued by the director of the Country Library Service, Mr. G. T. Alley, on behalf of the National Patriotic Fund Board. "It is no longer any use asking many people for the/books they can spare" the statement continues. "Those have been given long ago. It is the books now that people would like to keep perhaps to reread, that are needed overseas; your best books, and if you give them, they will be used and appreciated. Paper-covered books will do as well as cloth ones, as long as they are reasonably clean and all in one piece. But, remember, soldiers in the Middle East don't want to read dull books 20 or 30 years old and now thoroughly out of date. Give the books you have read and enjoyed yourself Next week a drive will be made through the schools. Every school child is.a collector."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1944, Page 6
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186APPEAL FOR BOOKS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1944, Page 6
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