SWEETS FOR SOLDIERS
PATRIOTIC BOARD'S PROPOSAL. (Press Assn.) WELLINGTON. May 2.
The National Patriotic Fund Board has decided to increase the quantity of chocolate and other confectionery placed on transports for the benefit of men who are non-smokers during the voyage from New Zealand. This decision was made in accordance with the recommendation received by the board recently from a lieutenant who acted as gifts officer on one ship. He said he had found there were many nonsmokers and he suggested the advisability of putting aboard more sweets to provide more adequately for a substitute for cigarettes and tobacco. From now on, as a result of a report made to a meeting of the board by a special sub-committee, the comforts provided for each one thousand men aboard will include one thousand 6d packets or blocks of sweets and chocolate.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 130, 3 May 1941, Page 6
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