CHARGES RETRACTED
Non-Receipt Of Comforts By Soldiers PRAISE FOR Y.M.C.A. Bi®' \ CHRISTCHURCH, .July 3. Soldiers in the Middle East who wrote to the mayor of Lyttelton, Mr. F. E. Sutton, complaining that they had received nothing from the Patriotic Fund, have now sent him another letter “taking it all back’’ and explaining that they had misunderstood the position. Mr. Sutton, who sent the original complaint to the secretary of the Canterbury Patriotic Fund, Mr. H. S. Feast, has advised him of the retraction.
“I take it all back through the Y.M.C.A.,” said one of the men. “They have treated us like kings and have given us cigarettes, tobacco, chocolate, fruit cake, sandwiches, tea, soft drinks, razors, toothbrushes, soapin fact, everything that we had craved for in he last few weeks.”
Mr. Sutton suggested to Mr I east that it would be only fair t.> advise Wellington of the misunderstanding.” A boost like this is, in my opinion, of national importance,” he said “The Y.M.C.A. has acted as distributing centre for the fund’s goods.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/WWCN19410711.2.19
Bibliographic details
Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 81, 11 July 1941, Page 5
Word Count
173CHARGES RETRACTED Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 81, 11 July 1941, Page 5
Using This Item
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in