UNADDRESSED GIFT PARCELS
Nearly 100,000 Sent Away Three mam dispatches of unaddressed gift parcels received through the provincial patriotic councils of the Dominion have been sent overseas for the New Zealand forces by the National Patriotic Fund Board. The number of these parcels sent to date has reached the imposing total of nearly 100,000. The scheme was introduced by the board to ensure that ail the members ol the Dominion’s lighting services would receive a parcel from home at intervals, and it is stated to have been an unqualified success. Many letters have been received by the board, from Major-General B. C. Freyberg, General Officer Commanding the Second N.Z.E.F., down to the humblest private, expressing appreciation of the system and the nature of the parcels. They provide a close link with New Zealand, and every time they arrive a striking reminder of the goodwill of the people of the Dominion generally to the. men of the fighting forces as well , as < an indication that the service they -are giving is not being forgotten by those they have left behind.
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Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 73, 16 May 1941, Page 5
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179UNADDRESSED GIFT PARCELS Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 73, 16 May 1941, Page 5
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