CAMP AMENITIES
PATRIOTIC FUND BOARD GRANTS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Mar. 15, Books to the value of £IOOO are to be purchased from America out of the National Patriotic Fund, and made available to all branches of the armed forces through the library service of the Army Education and Welfare Service. The list of amenities approved at a meeting of the National Patriotic Fund Board included a sewing machine for each of the two W.A.A.C. camps. Other items included radio sets, writing, benches, and table tennis tables. Grants of £lO each were made for the officers and sergeants’ messes at these camps. A grant of £SO was approved for the purchase of extra amenities for the W.R.N.S. hostels at Wellington and also for a radio set, two electric jugs, and indoor games for the W.R.N.S. at Auckland. Commander C. H. T. Palmer has been appointed agent for the board in Auckland for the supply of consumable goods for naval personnel.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25175, 16 March 1943, Page 4
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