GIFT GOODS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 284, 1 December 1915, Page 8

GIFT GOODS.

AKRANGEJIENTS FOR

DELiA TERY

-■ WELLINGTON, Dec. 1. Colonel Charfcers, Officer Commandlog the New Zealand base in Egypt, in <ai report to the. Minister for Defence, says that gift goods been arriving 'regularly and are being distributed as far as possible m .accordance with. instructions.. unfortunately, all home-rnaaq. jam went bad through the tropics.. A; great number of glass jars were broken in transit. , ~ Colonel Charters advises that ail i^ams-be^sentUn tins, say 71b. Jam 'fe very fa'ccepbable. The local stutt is ■Vei#''sflfr.v /All foods sent to Anzao ar^-h#ig'pilaced in charge of an officer^eqatuse of the consistent thieving on tho. transports ' between there and Egypt. Special thanks are forwarded ta the donors'"of the money cabled on ths- Bth Sejitember. The Maheno and AVillochra com- : forts - are sufficient for every man at the front and on detachment in ISgypt; ' No:;g4ftf^n€ during August, were distributM, %vmg \-fcv the' heavy iffghting making it impossible.