PRISONERS’ PARCELS
PACKING IN BRITAIN MR. FRASER’S INSPECTION (Reed. Aug. 19, 10.80 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 18. The New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. P. Fraser, visited the main London packing centre for food parcels 'for British prisoners of war. He saw some of the 72,000 Christmas parcels being wrapped and despatched. Mr. Fraser met Mrs. Beamish, a sister-in-law of RearAdmiral Beamish. Mrs. Beamish’s son is a prisoner of war in Germany and her daughter, Miss Helen H. Beamish, is a teacher at St. Hilda’s Collegiate School, Dunedin. Mr. Fraser made a note of the name and address. He said: “I shall get in touch with her.” Mr. Fraser also inspected a group of Red Cross and St. John ambulances, including a flying column comprising a mobile first aid van, a mobile kitchen, food and stores van.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20638, 19 August 1941, Page 5
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135PRISONERS’ PARCELS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20638, 19 August 1941, Page 5
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