WITH Y.M.C.A. OVERSEAS
Mrs Douglas Spence, who recently returned from the Middle East, where she has been engaged in voluntary Y.M.C.A. service and also as a worker in the Maadi central; hostel, gave a general outline of her work to the "Manawatu Standard's" Feilding representative. Mrs Spence said she was associated witli the office and library and assisted in the despatch of parcels for the soldiers, often doing their shopping for them, and attended to the delivery "of comforts to the Forces. For a period she acted as a hostess at the Y.M.C.A. hostel in Alexandria, where there was accommodation for 70 New Zoalanders. The dining-rocm there was designed to provide for 100 people, but usually there were some 300 men requiring attention. Once a month a dinner was given for New Zealand naval personnel who were in that area. This was free to the men and the cost was borne by the National Patriotic Fund. It was a most popular meeting place for men of all branches of» the Services. Mrs Spence has been overseas about four years, and returned on a hospital ship in May last.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 277, 20 October 1944, Page 3
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188WITH Y.M.C.A. OVERSEAS Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 277, 20 October 1944, Page 3
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