“A PAL”
Grateful Soldier’s Letter APPRECIATION OF PARCELS DUNEDIN, February 18. It was stated at the meeting of the Otago Provincial Patriotic Council that some 30 letters had been received from New Zealand soldiers in the Middle East expressing thanks for gift parcels. One of these letters—to the Mayor (Mr A. H. Allen)—was read, and caused much amusement. Here is the letter: — “Mr A. H. Allen, the Mayor, Dunedin. Dear Sir, —Received your parcel, and thanks a million. I hope that one day you may be granted such a pleasant surprise. We are in the desert, and luxuries are few and farbetween, and no man would have traded his parcel for its weight in gold. If Henry Ford were here himself he would only get his ration, but If he received a parcel he would know a happiness that his money could not buy, and above all it makes every man jack of us here realise that such people as yourself and what you stand for are more than worth fighting for. That’s all. pal, so long, and a Happy New Year.” The Mayor said that it was pleasing to know that the council had not received one complaint regarding the contents of parcels sent by the council to their soldiers overseas, and that complaints about non-receipt of parcels had now entirely ceased.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22201, 19 February 1942, Page 4
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223“A PAL” Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22201, 19 February 1942, Page 4
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