Gifts Required For N.Z. Forces

Northern Advocate, 8 March 1943, Page 6

Gifts Required For N.Z. Forces

Difficulty is being experienced by the National Patriotic Fund Board in meeting requests for razors for patients on the hospital ships and for men in the rest camps and hospitals in the Pacific area. Razors which will take the three hole type of blade arc required and it is felt that if the need is made known there will probably be many men willing to assist the board by making available spare razors which have been put aside and for which they have no real use.

As electric power is not available to the New Zealand Forces on a number of the Pacific islands they are garrisoning, there is a demand for kerosene lamps of the Coleman and Aladdin types, also spare mantles and generators for Coleman lamps, and it is thought that people in some of the country districts especially, will be able to help in this direction. Kerosene irons, flat: irons—in fact all irons fitted with a handle and which can be heated by external means—even defective electric irons—are also wanted for the troops in the Pacific. Another requirement is unused gramophone needles, of which there are probably partially filled boxes in a number of homes.

The Patriotic Fund Board will be grateful if people having any of these articles to spare will communicate with its office in Wellington. Purchases of all the items enumerated have been made wherever possible, bui the supplies available have not been sufficient to meet requirements and it is for this reason that the appeal is being made.