HOW PRISONERS OF WAR WERE HELPED.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11748, 7 February 1919, Page 4

HOW PRISONERS OF WAR WERE HELPED.

Evidence is continually being ceived of the invaluable nature the assistance which the p 9 v have given towards prisoners of* by enabling parcels of food enit!; iug to be dispatched regularlj the prisoners’ camps. The g Commissioner, Sir Thomas MtJ zie, recently made report inco® tiou with the nine prisoaen fe New Zealand who have been hit through the Church Army’s “P t iJ ers of War Fund.” The ig which will enable coutributort see that their donations have I* well spent, was dated from thefi Commissioner’s office on lothS ember, and states ■ ‘Food parcels were regnlarlji up till the date of the Aiumtia ing signed. Since that date fnlli ply of uuaddressed parcels hast despatched to Rotterdam for i tribution, and this supply in! being continued. lam gladta sure you that in the majorllj cases our parcels have continue! reach their destination and knowlodgements have osar hand in due coarse. With rif to prisoners of war not yet t td, they have, 1 hope, been i to the .General Deptl Rotterdam, which is now wil known among those who haveh captured, but have not yet reiil a permanent internment camp Yours truly, (Signed) THOMAS McKEffl Rev F W Whibley, Ormondville Vicarage, Hawkes, Bay, N.Z.