PLEASANT SURPRISE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32311, 10 September 1943, Page 5

PLEASANT SURPRISE

PARCELS SENT FROM PAEROA CPL. C. GWILLIAM’S EXPERIENCE “Now I have just had rather a pleasant surprise. One of the hospital orderlies came across and asked if by any chance I came from Paeroa as. one of his patients had received a patriotic parcel from Mr and Mrs B. Gwilliam Snr., of Paeroa. You can imagine the thrill it gave me to find that your parcel had landed in a hospital and that it should be the very hospital where I should be working,” writes Corporal C. J. Gwilliam of Paeroa, at present serving with the Second New ( Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Middle East in a letter to his parents, Mr and Mrs B. .Gwilliam Snr.„ of Wood street, Paeroa. Corporal Gwilliam continues:— “I went over to the ward and made myself known to the chap. He greeted me with the news that another patient in the same ward had received a parcel from Miss 'Gwilliam. So we had quite a yarn. “Another chap received a parcel from D. Sheehan, of Paeroa, in the same ward. I wrote all of your addresses on the cards that earns with the parcels and- you will be getting the cards back with a letter. “ I myself received a parcel from Awhitu (Franklin branch) of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic Association. There was no name on the card but I shall drop a letter to the secretary and acknowledge the gift. In the parcel was a tin of apricots, tin of peaches, tin of green peas, tin of milk, barley sugar, a book, a cake, a toothbrush and a tin of Gibbs Dentifrice so there you see there is pretty good value. “Everyone says that this issue is the best they have had.”