TOBACCO FOR N.Z.E.F.
COMPLAINT FROM SOLDIER IN MIDDLE EAST [United Press Association] Napier, May 16. Allegations that sergeants and other higher-paid men were able to purchase tobacco and cigarettes at a discount of ; 12£ per cent while the rank and file had to “pay through the nose” are contained in a letter received by the chairman of the Napier Patriotic Committee Mr T. W. Hercock, from a New Zealand soldier in the Middle East and read to members of the committee. Mr Hercock said that his correspondent was one of a number who had been five months without a parcel of any description. It was also mentioned that Australian troops had opened up their own canteens and could obtain anything they desix-ed whether it was . from New Zealand or Australia. Mr | Hercock said that he was referring the letter to the authorities, but before | doing so he intended to tear the man’s ; name off so that he could not be i victimised. l
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 17 May 1941, Page 5
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