PARCELS FOR TROOPS
XMAS PATRIOTIC ISSUE :P. A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 24. “Althougn recently large numbers of Ne-.v Zealand service personnel have returned to the Dominion, it will again be necessary to provide patriotic gift parcels for a considerable number in Italy and Egypt this Christmas,” said Colonel F. Waite, National Patriotic Fund Board commissioner, in a report to the board. He also refers to the necessity of making a further issue of winter sports gear. To date, he said, GO sets of Rugby gear had been issued to units in Italy, and arrangements had been made to supply soccer and hockey material and material for athletics. Eighteen sets of Rugby gear had been issued to the troops in Egypt.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21852, 24 October 1945, Page 3
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119PARCELS FOR TROOPS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21852, 24 October 1945, Page 3
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