WELFARE PLANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1941, Page 6

WELFARE PLANS

CARE OF NEW' ZEALAND SOLDIERS PASSING THROUGH AUSTRALIA. ADDITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS MADE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Additional steps have been taken recently to promote the splendid work that has been done in Australia for members of the New Zealand forces passing through, particularly sick and wounded soldiers on their way back to the Dominion. Major F. W. Mothes, M.8.E., of the New Zealand Temporary Staff, has been appointed liaison officer and the National Patriotic Fund Board is working in close co-operation with him and the New Zealand Trade’, and Tourist Commissioner in Australia, Mr W. Taylor. Arrangements have been made by the board to send regularly copies of two of the Dominion’s illustrated weeklies, and to forward as required supplies of cigarette tobacco and cigarettes to be placed on board hospital ships for the benefit of returning New Zealand men on their arrival at an Australian port. The first consignment of cigarettes and tobacco sent for this purpose comprised ten cases. They contained 50,000 cigarettes and 1501bs. of cigarette tobacco. Major Mothes is a New Zealander and is well known in business and sporting circles. He was formerly general manager of the Goldberg Advertising Agency in New Zealand. Subsequently he was appointed managing director of that organisation for Sydney and Melbourne. About the middle of last year' he resigned from this position in order to return to New Zealand to offer his services for war work in the Dominion. Since then he has been associated with the sick and wounded staff at Army Headquarters. He served overseas in the Great War for 4i- years, having enlisted with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force Main Body. During that period he served in Gallipoli, England and France.