PLEASANT SURPRISE
SOLDIER APPRECIATES PARCEL
NOW BACK IN NEW ZEALAND
“I received a very pleasant surprise yesterday afternoon to receive your very nice parcel and I might assure you that it was very much appreciated. It was very good of you to send it considering that I really do not know you at all,” reads a letter from Pte. L. A. Rackham, of Karangahake, written while he was in hospital in the Middle East to Mr W. H. Cheale of Netherton. Pte. Rackham is now back in New Zealand and is an inmate of the Rotorua Hospital.
“Altogether I have been very lucky with parcels this Christmas as I received quite a few from my folk and they came in very handy here in hospital.
“We had a very good Christmas in hospital. The staff here worked hard to make things as pleasant as possible and it was a very good effort, although some of the lads were not feeling the best at that time.
“Most of the boys here now are ■well on the improve. I am out in a chair in the sun and am glad to know that I will be walking again very soon.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HPGAZ19420506.2.30
Bibliographic details
Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3115, 6 May 1942, Page 5
Word Count
198PLEASANT SURPRISE Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3115, 6 May 1942, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hauraki Plains Gazette. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.