N.Z. PRISONERS OF WAR.
Received February^ 8.30 p.m LONDON, February 6 Sir Thomas Mackenzie's report on the assistance rendered to New Ze»and .prisoners shows that in addition to parcels of clothing/each receives nine filings' worth of food weekly and cigarettes and tobacco fornightly. p r i s6ners iv Qemany J half-a-crown a^ week pocket money. TMse in Turkey get from 10/4 t, 12/2 a week according to the loca^ity^where thejr are imprisoned. Thl latter receive £ood local bread. There w grea' difficulty in sending parce ,,, which sometimes take from three to' ten months in transmission. They receive their money more easily
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 8 February 1917, Page 5
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101N.Z. PRISONERS OF WAR. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 8 February 1917, Page 5
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