CALLING NEW ZEALAND
WOUNDED servicemen over 8.8. C. The 8.8. C. microphone was recent invited to visit a large English count house where wounded New Zealai soldiers and sailors are convalescir states a 8.8. C. bulletin. The boys were thrilled at the pre pect of being able to speak across t! World to their homes, and all, fre Major Robertson to the cook, spoke few words. Mrs Robertson describ the living conditions and the cheerf surroundings of this stately home tur ed hospital. All the messages were imprompi After the recording the men crowd round the 8.8. C. car to hear a pin back of their messages. Miss Thurston, an Aucklander, w was matron in-chief of New Zeala military hospitals during the last wi happened to be visiting the home wi gifts that day. She was asked by t 8.8. C. interviewer how the men coi pared with their fathers whom she h nursed in the last war. She replic "We don't make comparisons. Th are just chips off the old block. v
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 25 October 1941, Page 7
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173CALLING NEW ZEALAND Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 25 October 1941, Page 7
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