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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4428, 21 May 1941, Page 4

“We have many workmen who will come and say their home has been bombed, and ask for half a day off to arrange for somewhere to sleep,” says a member of a large London firm in a letter to a business friend in Auckland. He adds: “They do not utter a word of complaint. We can assure you that the ordinary man and the ordinary woman behave wonderfully. The Government’s arrangements are now good, and London—and we imagine the other towns too —are far better equipped for dealing with air raid damage and casualties than a year ago It is amazing to see the Germans’ lack of success against justifiable targets. It is house pronerty, churches and other nonmilitary places that have suffered most.”