CHOCOLATE FOR TROOPS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25505, 8 April 1944, Page 6

CHOCOLATE FOR TROOPS

PATRIOTIC BOARD’S POSTAL service; (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Apl. 6. Since the postal chocolate service for the New Zealand forces was inaugurated by the National Patriotic Fund Board on January 17, poet offijes throughout the Dominion, Acting as receiving agents, have handled 40,750 orders. Each is for a 21b block of chocolate, so that the total orders to date represent tons of chocolate.

The Patriotic Fund Board has received numerous letters frond personnel in the Pacific, thanking the board for instituting the service in addition to the tobacco service, and expressing appreciation of the quality of and the way the chocolate has opened up. There has not yet been time for letters to arrive from Italy and those serving further afield who have toee/n sent chocolate by relatives or friends under the service. The handling and execution of the orders involve a good deal of extra work, but the orders are being dealt with as promptly as conditions permit, and so far good results have been achieved. It is suggested that when relatives, friends, or business premises order chocolate for more than one member of the forces, they should write the names and addresses on the acknowledgment part of the order forms, so that when they receive the serial numbers of the • parcels from the board through the post they will be able to advise the addressees that the orders have gone forward.