GOOD RESPONSE
MANY BINOCULARS FOR ARMED FORCES Wellington. This Day. Between 5000 and 6000 pairs ol j binoculars have been received at the Army ordnance depot. Trentham, in response to the national appeal launched on ‘24th Tanuary. Delivery is taken in hampers. The binoculars are unpacked, and a record taken of the make and maker’s number. An expert examines each pair. Those determined suitable for armeo forces use are sent to the ordnance workshops and there stamped with an army number. Every pair, whether given, loaned or sold to the arm c'. forces, is acknowledged. Twenty-seven members of the W.W.S.A. arc assisting in the big task of unpacking, and other tasks involved, at the ordnance depot on receipt of the hampers of binoculars.— P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 4 February 1942, Page 2
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124GOOD RESPONSE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 4 February 1942, Page 2
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