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Australian Comforts Fund
Figures From The Middle East
Most recent figures from the Fund’s Commissioners in the Middle East indicate the extent of leave facilities provided for Australian troops during November at Australian Comforts Fund hostels and tea rooms. The Leave Clubs in Jerusalem, which include the Fast and Palatin Hotels and a pension for officers’ accommodation, provided 24,587 meals and 9,839 beds for men on leave.
At the Tea and Rest Room at Tel Aviv, where tea, cake and biscuits, lounge, writing paper and facilities and table games are available free, 9,338 men were served during November. The tea-huts which give similar free service on the surf beaches at Gaza, Hirbya, Al Jura and Nuseirat, are closed down during the rainy months. At the Metropole Hotel in Beirut, which was taken over by the A.C.F. as a hostel for troops on leave in Syria the day the