Side 1: Part 1, 19 Sep 1945. Messages home from Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) prisoners of war. An unidentified woman reads information about recently liberated New Zealand prisoners of war.
The following men arrived from Palembang yesterday: Signalman Graham George Chellie [?], Lower Hutt; Signalman Ron J. Aspen, Northcote; Sgt Neil Jeffrey Packard, Nelson; Signalman John G. Evans, Nelson; Lt Robert Arkley, Wellington; Lt William Burke, Herne Bay.
Brief messages home are sent by the following former prisoners of war: Captain Harry Lilley, Dunedin; Lieut. Bill Taylor, Oamaru and Sydney; Lt Bruce Clark, Invercargill; Lt Harold Service, Dunedin; Sub Lieut George Taylor, Kaikoura; Capt John Hamilton Gibbons, Nelson; Maj Max Pemberton, Wellington; Lieut Dennis Thomas, Christchurch; Lieut Jack Benham, Manurewa and Tauranga; Capt Leslie Jerome, Auckland; Captain William Abel, Dunedin; Sapper Vic Mabin, Nelson; Lieut Pat Garden, Dunedin; W.O. Douglas Buchanan, Takapuna.
Side 2: Part 1. 27 Sep 1945. News report from an unidentified officer of the RNZAF. Unidentified male RNZAF officer sends news that the following sixteen New Zealand prisoners of war have left today on a flight for New Zealand: W.O. Kenneth Douglas Buchanan; Lt Jack Elliot Benham; Captain William Abel; Flt Lt Frank Warrington John Olsen [?]; Captain George Leslie Jerome; Flt Lt Sydney Ernest Scales; Flt Lt Ernest Charles Gartrell; Flt Off James Archibald Valentine; Lt Dennis Hardy Thomas; Sapper Vic Mabin; Able Seaman John Horace Sarney; Capt Norman Barry Fletcher; Able Seaman Trevor Neville Hill; Able Seaman Herbert Robert Aldnall [?]; civilian internees Mills (mother in Hokitika) and Harold Joseph Edmonds, St Heliers.
He reads messages from Lt L.H. Herd of Wellington and Raymond Wilson of Wellington. He then comments on the health of the former POWs which is improving with rations of New Zealand butter, cheese, oysters and whitebait and describes how they are spending their days since liberation, swimming, shopping and relaxing after three and a half years imprisonment.