MERCHANT SEAMEN
SERVICES IN WAR-TIME PRACTICAL RECOaNITION (PA) ' 'WELLINGTON,;. May 1. Practical recognition of the services that British merchant seamen are rendering in these tow referred to bv a member of the Overseas 'teamen's Gift .Committee in an in STthTl&^he^^^r^ looked, while during the present it was some mbnths before any appreciation began to be expressed, irom Wellington to date the crews .of no fewer than 31 deep-sea ships, totalling 3733 men, had been provided with gift parcels and thus given the. pleasure and encouragement of knowing; that this country not only by kind of very acceptable parcels. These parcels' had been regularly packed by a women's packing committee, averaging 70 parcels per ship. Some of the larger ships had been given las many as ,480;v450, .and 421. The-work on,behalf of the merchant searhgiV, : he concluded, had~been 'token up S : onlypi'Empire countries, "but also in the United States.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24596, 2 May 1941, Page 6
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148MERCHANT SEAMEN Otago Daily Times, Issue 24596, 2 May 1941, Page 6
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