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GIFT PARCELS TO BRITAIN N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent LONDON. Jan. 1. “ Nothing has stirred the emotions of Britain more than the eagerness of sympathisers in the dominions, colonies, and foreign countries to help Britain by gift parcel schemes,” says the Daily Telegraph in reporting that some 200,000 tons of food had been received by tlie people in thousands of homes. “Each local authority, it adds, “and every hospital in the country has received cases of overseas gifts distributed by the Ministry of Food special department. There is scarcely a country in the world which has not contributed. New Zealand is stated to have sent 36,872 gifts in terms of 561 b parcels.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26659, 3 January 1948, Page 5
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113DEEPLY APPRECIATED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26659, 3 January 1948, Page 5
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