SPEEDY DISPATCH
GIFTS FOR TROOPS FORCES IN BRITAIN (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this cfay. In these days of shipping difficulties opportunity to send comforts away to the New Zealand forces overseas is one the National Patriotic Board cannot afford to miss. Even though the notice given is short it is able to make good use of advice. It was possible to send through Sydney a fresh supply of gift parcels to the First Echelon in Egypt when it became known that the original consignment arrived in England with the Second Echelon and, since then, taking advantage of the splendid offer by shipping companies, the board has been able to despatch Christmas comforts to England for New Zealand soldiers, sailors, airmen and nurses. The notice was very short but in less than 24 hours six railway trucks loaded with 1160 cases of gift parcels and woollen goods and all the necessary consignment papers were made out. Twenty-three more cases were sent next day by a passenger train, making 1183 cases representing 82 tons.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20385, 23 October 1940, Page 11
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172SPEEDY DISPATCH Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20385, 23 October 1940, Page 11
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