GIFTS FOR SOLDIERS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20170, 13 February 1940, Page 6

GIFTS FOR SOLDIERS

MEDICAL REQUISITES, AMBULANCE & HOSPITAL APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC An appeal is being made by the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society for hospital and ambulance supplies as equipment for each echelon or reinforcement that leaves New Zealand.

A schedule particularising items required has been received by the Gisborne branches of the organisations named, covering capes or jackets, bandages and binders, milk and sugar covers, socks, pillows, slippers, old flannel and linen pieces, gauze swabs and squares, and bags for hair brushes. If the troops are employed in Europe, balaclavas, mittens, socks, scarves and gloves will be required.

On the return of invalids to New Zealand the requirements will include pyjamas, shirts, vests, drawers, socks, scarves, and handkerchiefs, as well as invalid foods, games, writing materials, tobacco, pipes and cigarettes, tooth brushes, razors and blades.

Articles required for local camps each month included bandages and binders, jackets, gauze, cigarettes, pipes, tobacco, ash-trays, and invalid foods.

Requirements for field ambulances include handkerchiefs, face cloths, bed socks, cigarettes, biscuits, sweets and pipes. Transports will require much the same equipment.