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Mrs Farren of the Australian Comforts Fund, distributing fruit to troops at an Australian port

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Australian Comforts Fund

What the Comforts Fund supplies:-
Standard Equipment (on embarkation), shorts, pyjamas, socks, shaving soap, towel, singlet, sandshoes, face soap, handkerchiefs, shirt, razor, washing soap.
Shipboard Extra.- Fruit, cake, vegetables, soft drinks, cash.
Games.- Cards, draughts, quoits, dart boards, lotto, chequers.
At the Base and in the Line.- In addition to the replacement of goods in the first group, issues when necessary of vests, tooth brushes, laces, polish, sauce, saline, tooth paste, cigarettes, tobacco, condensed milk.
All goods are distributed gratis.
The Australian Comforts Fund supplements the imperfect original military issue, and ensures the supply and distribution of necessary replacements.
This is the only organisation which can do this.
The commissioners abroad have as their main objective the health and physical welfare of the fighting forces. They aim at preventing sickness and epidemics and impaired efficiency by providing adequate and suitable clothing, variety and balance of food, especially in the form of

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Australian Comforts Fund Club Premises, London

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Australian Residential For Servicemen in London

The first exclusively Australian residential club for servicemen in England will be opened at the end of the month, providing accommodation, entertainment and meals for 110 officers and men a night.
The club, on which the Australian Comforts Fund is spending £20,00 sterling, is situated in a former private hotel which is being refurnished and renovated.
For 4/ a day, servicemen will obtain use of a single bedroom with telephone, hot and cold water and gas fire, also breakfast. Lunch will coast 1/6, dinner 1/9. For these meals, distinctively Australian dishes will be chosen.
In addition, a late night snack bar has been installed for the use of men returning from theatres.
Amenities include spacious lounges, card rooms, billiard rooms.
ACF Commissioner, Squadron Leader G. B. Cooper and ACF advisory committee in London sought the advice of the American Red Cross in designing the layout

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Troops distributing Australian Comforts Fund care packages

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Australian Comforts Fund.

A further parcel of comforts has been sent away from the local Branch of the Australian Comforts Fund, to headquarters, comprising:- 56 bags, 257 handkerchiefs, 95 pairs of sox, 2 pairs pyjamas, 3 pullovers and reading matter. A parcel was also sent to the Red Cross comprising 3 dressing gowns, 1 old linen, quantity of children’s second hand shoes. Front-line newspaper correspondents in their dispatches to the newspapers often refer to the fine work performed by the Y.M.C.A. and Salvation Army, but rarely mention the A.C.F.
This is understandable as officers of the two former organisations come in close contact with the troops, the A.C.F. organisation operating at the base. While appreciating the splendid work done by the Y.M.C.A. and Salvation Army, the fact should be known that the A.C.F. throughout Australia is responsible for the goods supplied and the finance required for

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