GREETINGS FROM NZ TROOPS IN CANADA

[This is a recording held on one side of a disc sent to the New Zealand Broadcasting Unit in the Middle East in 1941. Recording discs were in short supply during the war, so after it was broadcast in New Zealand, this half-used disc was probably sent by the National Broadcasting Service to Egypt so the other side could be used. It contains greetings recorded in Ontario, Canada by New Zealanders receiving Royal Air Force training there as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme. Greetings from men in Canada were recorded on disc by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and sent to be played on radio in New Zealand during the weekly programme, ""With the Boys Overseas.""]

A Canadian announcer is heard and then the following New Zealanders send greetings: John Jasper [NZ401765] who greets New Plymouth; Dan Clifford [NZ401753] who greets several locations in Auckland, Helensville and elsewhere in New Zealand; Jack Goodlet [NZ404025],who greets Cargill Rd; Bert Hibell [NZ404029] who pays tribute to the Canadian people and sends greetings to Palmerston North; Ken Wright [NZ404043] greets family in Roxburgh, and Harold Holtom [NZ403604] of Paekakariki [recording ends part way through his greeting.] Three of the men (Jasper, Clifford and Hibbell) would lose their lives in 1942 in various RAF operations.