HOW PRISONERS OF WAR WERE HELPED.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 32, 7 February 1919, Page 4

HOW PRISONERS OF WAR WERE HELPED.

Evidence is continually being received of the invaluable nature of the as- 1 Bistaaico which ■ the public have -given towards prisoners of war, by enabling parcels of food and clothing to be disr patched regularly to the prisoners’; camps. The High Commissioner, Sir Thomas McKenzie, recently made a ret port in connection with’ the nine prisoners from New Zealand who had toeen helped through the Church Army’s “Prisoners of War Fund.” The letter, which will enable contributors to see that their donations have been well spent, was dated from the High Commissioner’s Office on 15th November, and states:— . “Food parcels were regularly sent up till the date of the armistice being signed. Since that date a full supply of unaddreseed parcels has been dispatched to Rotterdam for distribution, and this supply is toeing continued. I ,am glad to Asßare:you that in the majority of cases our parcels'have continued to treach their destination and acknowledgments have wane to hipd in due course, With #egais to prisoners of war not yet located, theyi have, I hope, been able to draw from to© General Depot at Rotterdam, which is-now widely known among those who have been captured 1 , but have not yet. reached a .permanent internment camp. _ ; Yours truly, (Signed) Thomas McKenzie. Rev. F. W. Whibley, ' Ormondville .Vicarage, Hawke’s Bay, N;Z.