PRISONERS OF WAR
N.Z. GIFTS OF FOOD RED CROSS SHIPMENT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Following a meeting yesterday of the National Patriotic Fund Board, at which the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, presided, it was announced that the following goods had been ordered for dispatch to prisoners of war by the board in conjunction with the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society: Twenty-one thousand tins of meat, 21,000 tins of butter, 21,000 tins of jam, 11,000 tins of coffee and milk, and one ton of tinned chocolate. Arrangements have been made to ship the goods to the International Red Cross organisation at Lisbon. From there they will be sent via Geneva to prisoners-of-war camps.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20635, 15 August 1941, Page 8
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