MAIN LONDON PACKING CENTRE
PARCELS FOR PRISONERS OI WAR MR FRASER’S VISIT (Ree. 9.0 a.m.) London. Aug. 18. Mr Fraser visited the main London packing centre ftu: food parcels for British prisoners of war. He saw some of . the 72.000 Christmas parcels being wrapped and despatched. Mr Fraser met. Mrs Beamish, sister-in-law of Rear-Admiral Beamish. Mrs Beamish’s son is a prisoner of war in Germany. and her daughter. Miss , Helen H. Beamish, is a teacher at St. Hilda's Collegiate School. Dunedin. Mr Fraser made a note of the name and j address, and he said. “I shall get in touch with her.” Mr Fraser also inspected a group of 1 Red Cross and St. John Ambulances, including a flying column, a mobile first aid van, a mobile kitchen, food and . . tores van. —U.P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 August 1941, Page 5
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