MOBILE CANTEENS
FIVE TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN NEW ZEALAND FOR USE OF OUR FORCES IN MIDDLE EAST. ICE CREAM PLANT WELL IN HAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Five 30cwt chassis have been landed in Wellington from overseas and are to be used to build mobile canteens for the New Zealand forces. Mr G. Hayden. secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board, stated today that when completed, the canteens would be sent to the Middle East. Funds for two had been subscribed by the staff of Woolworths (N.Z.) Ltd., and the others had been given respectively by members of the Masonic Order. Native children, for use with Maori Battalion, and the New Zealand Shop Assistants' Federation, representing assistants throughout the Dominion. It was reported at yesterday's meeting of the board that the construction of an ice cream plant for the forces in the Middle East was well in hand and that its completion is expected at an early date.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1941, Page 6
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