"CHRISTMAS IS COMING"

Hutt News, Volume 15, Issue 13, 27 August 1941, Page 5

"CHRISTMAS IS COMING"

SOLDIERS' GIFT PARCELS "I received your parcel at Bardia on Boxing Day, and, as we were far from headquarters and bully-beef had formed the greatest part of our Christmas dinner the previous day, it was worth more than £100 to me at the time," wrote one soldier to the donor of patriotic parcel he received last Christmas. Although Christmas, 1941, seems far off, if the troops are to again receive these nameless Christmas parcels, they must be despatched within the next month. In Lower Hutt packing operations are to commence at the Patriotic Room on Thursday (to-morrow), and gifts of goods or cash will - be particularly welcome. No appeal is being made for Christmas cakes or smoking requisites, as these are supplied in bulk by the National Patriotic Fund Board. i Suggestions for ..donations are handkerchiefs, tinned goods, e.g., coffee and milk, fruit, condensed milk or cream, meat or soup, barley sugar and soap (sealed in tins), and playing cards. Biscuits are donated each month by Messrs. Griffin and Sons, Ltd.