BEITISH AND FOREIGN SAILORS' SOCIETY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 16, 19 January 1916, Page 9

BEITISH AND FOREIGN SAILORS' SOCIETY.

CTo the Editor;) Sir,—The "British Weekly" for No- :* timber 25, 1915, pays a very high and :'r well-deserved tribute to the workers in "-'■ this - widespread society (the oldest £,: '&2ors'mission-in'--the -woTid) for their ! magnificent war work during 1915. ilore" than 50 crews, whose ships had .heen-torpedoed, were sheltered and -ieiped, when in their direct need! At Bamsgate and Holyhead the premise! .- .were handed over to the authorities as .-emergency Red Cross hospitals for use - forrour wounded soldiers from Antwerp and the Dardanelles, and the apprecia- '-. iitraof the men thus helped was beyond the power of wards to express. More - than 50,000 woollen garments have been . sent to our "Navy lads, to help them in -. facing the cold winter, while many tons .of bright, cheerful literature have been sent to the Navy, the camps, and the Several fronts, and thousands" of grate--M letters have been received from the .:.__. Our Sailors' Mission in ■land, which has been at work for more .. t_m- 30- years, and is "still at it," is a -hranch of the above noble society, of ': whkh our King and Queen are patrons. - In this mission, Captain Bazeley and his ihdpers are doing a great work, and which will now be greatly facilitated by . the great improvements in the hall, ' : which have been carried out so well under the direction of the Council of the Sailors' Home. The hall is to be re- - opened at T. 30 p.m. on the 21st inst. Wll • the friends and helpers of this mission kindly rally at the re-opening, Md also help our working fund?—l am, -' etc -> H. YOUNG, .'.' Collector, Kemuera.