SOLDIERS’ PARCELS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4558, 10 April 1942, Page 5

SOLDIERS’ PARCELS

|H RECEIPT ACKNOWLEDGED ■ INTERESTING REMINISCENCES Mr James Millen, of Tyrone Farm ■ a t WCra ; I Wh<> regularly sends pare IB cels to soldiers overseas, has received an interesting acknowledgment from ■ Lance-Corporal Stanley H Jones of Mary Force! N " V Z “ aland Ihe Lance-Corporal writes as f„i ■ lows: “Many thanks for a ver v wet ■ come pa) . cel whjch j rtce very we (December, 1941) Your ■note was dated June, 1940, and you? ame partly torn off the bottom of MheVthai Wi " be Interested to ■ceWed’it at ' as t. somebody has reiM? 1 i S lhe blsc 'uits were really and my gun team passed a ■the frnh° te l° f thanks for these and ■?L / 1 aad sweets - You say, Sir ■ ffivelv eVe T n m June New Maland is .v. 1 f, an Just imagine Pirongia d the yellow of the gorse round Te ■ Although a farmer mvfl eh 1 n' Ways admire gorse, because ■ beautWu 0W s maSSe ! ° f flower! a“ fl ’ Some ten years ago I fl s P e nt a very pleasant six months fl working for Mr J. E . Short „f t! fl ?J aW a ai ! a ’i d made some very good fl friends in that district—Mr Short and ■ Mr Daniell and his boys ( W "n ■ stone I met again over here just be- ■ fore he was captured in Greece) and ■ also Des McGovern, one of my own ■ lama "h th,s . mach ine-gun battalion. ■ aee?> fr h P J armer (or sta tion man- ■ tHet r ™ Morere Hot Springs disBand t, in°m y ”k eS south of Gisborne, ■ and m my absence my ‘good ladv ’ ■ carnes on as sister-in-chafge of the Bwm lpir ° Ba i V Mater,lit y Hospital. Were ■you over here ‘last time ’ i v™ ■would find many changes now The ■sun and sand, and dirt and filth'of the ■towns, still as bad, but I must own ■ o liking the heat of summer The In 'u ln ? ln , the Nile Valley and the a ,l A \ays interesting, as are ■growlnl ’ n Sheep and the maize - Kh? J °, nce again ’ Sir , many ■thanks for the good things in vour ■?, a d Ce i and .with best wishes for 1942 ■and all good luck. Kia ora.” I A LINK WITH TE AWAMUTU la ro'sidmff 0 ' S ham P ion writes to I? , re . s ’dent of Te Awamutu acknowI edging receipt of a parcel “It a he r ites - “ as though yo “ I have had a hard row to hoe at some IwW n ’ y ° Ur life ’ as you understand f man i. needs most when he is I away from home” (an indirect com s P e™rod the Mr % N ? rma e n Dt,a -y- Who th! plrceD “U CI?S f ° r and P acked sure "heLn 1 .A lve , s me great Piea■ure, he adds, to know that there is an old spark’ still left to take | ca re of our own little country ” thf n w ate cham pion, who hails from the Wairarapa, adds that Mr Fred Vile, saddler, of Te Awamutu, is his uncle, and, having stopped with him for a fortnight about two years ago found him “ not a bad old stick” g ’