Wanganui Red Cross Parcels Very Welcome In England

Wanganui Chronicle, 21 August 1950, Page 7

Wanganui Red Cross Parcels Very Welcome In England

Thanks and gratitude for food parcels received are contained in a bundle of letters from England, received by the Wanganui Red Cross Centre, also an i/ mowledgement ol two cases of gift clothing from the Chelmsford and Essex hospital, with a note from the matron asking that her grateful thanks be conveyed to the donors. The Durie Hill branch of the Red Cross has also received many letters of thanks from people in different places of Kendal, Hants, Melsham, in Wiltshire, Newcastle-on Tyne and from Warwick. All the parcels reached the recipients about the middle of June, and acknowledgment of same came by air mail.

A few extracts from the letters are as follows: I do thank you for the parcel and your kindness in remembering me. It is so nice to feel one has got friends so far away who remember them, it helps to nfake up for the loss I had during the war. "I do not know how we should have got on if it had not been for these parcels, especially for the tins of tongues. Your gifts of these are the only ones we have tasted since 1939." Another recipient states: "The contents of your parcels are greatly appreciated. The lambs tongue is indeed a luxury to us, and we shall also enjoy the rest of the parcel." “We are very pleased with the parcel you sent us and we hardly know how to express our thanks for your kindness to us. We people in the Old Country have got a lot to thank you people in New Zealand for during and since the last World War. God not only blessed New Zealand with a grand country and climate, but also with grand people whom England is proud of. We think we have now turned the corner of hardship and suffering and the sun is beginning to shine on us once again. Food is becoming more plentiful and trade is breaking all records.” “I have shared my parcel with some friends who have not been quite so lucky as myself in having kind friends in New Zealano. Things are better all round now, except that we get only half a pound of sugar a week, which doesn’t allow much for extras.” Grateful thanks to all the kind donors of food parcels are contained in all the letters which have come to the general Red Cross in Wanganui. Some of the recipients of the parcels, who live alone, appreciate the little extras which they enjoy when the parcel arrives. One writer conveys the thoughts of many when she states, “We should like to express our gratitude to the kind people in New Zea. land who send the parcels and to let them know that the contents of the parcel are extremely useful and that those who receive these gifts are truly appreciative.”