GIFTS FOR SOLDIERS
TE AWAMUTU’S CONTRIBUTION ONE TON OF PARCELS After weeks of preparatory work in which the ladies of Te Awamutu and district vied one with the other in their zealous endeavours to help a worthy, patriotic effort, the Council Chambers were the scene of much activity on Monday and yesterday, when the actual packing was commenced and completed. In all, 42 benzine cases were filled with 350 parcels, and these were taken to the Te Awamutu Co-opera-tive Dairy Company’s factory, where the boxes were duly and securely fastened with wire by machinery. Thereafter they were conveyed to the railway station to be sent on to Wellington, where they will form part of the Dominion’s shipment to be sent to “Our Boys” in the various theatres of the war.
The 350 parcels, when placed on the scales in their containing boxes, weighed exactly one ton. The result is one upon which the women of Te Awamutu and district are to be heartily congratulated. It represents a vast amount of labour—a labour of love given with patriotic devotion and an ardent desire to shed rays of happiness and comfort into the lines of “Oui- Boys” who are battling in far-off foreign lands to preserve for us our glorious heritage of Freedom and Justice.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4529, 28 January 1942, Page 5
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