CHOCOLATE ON THE RUN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 66, 17 March 1916, Page 5

CHOCOLATE ON THE RUN.

WHAT BECOMES OF OUB GIFTS. *UCKLA>rp TOXSIGSMESTS- -f; i; ■"■. SAFELY RECEIVED. Tne unhappy fate el Giaborne i eignment of comforts for the boys in ■ J Egypt, which is alleged to have been left - \ in"the' s'uivand rain until thechocolatb.'; , - oozed out in; a "liquid stream just outside.' ,;, . the door of the hospital'; to~ bring :tbes \ tortures of Tantalus instead of "comfort" ■«■ I to-thoee;who beheld it, was /warmly dis-;; cussed; formally and informally,- by~*a-; : j large company of membera r of -the; Aucki 1. a land .Women's Patriotic League, "who | . fathered in: the;,corridors .and epuncib, i chamber of the Town Hall to-day' l t the occasion of the monthly meeting' of the league;- ■. :r .•■."■ '■■Z'''-'''-'t" j Such an incident, if possessingrtiut'."*; "■.' y streak of truth,-would justly "s righteous indignation -of taeae patient, 3 consistent, . patriotic 'workers, "vwhoy c labour on, month after month, iii making-..- - --,r socles and shirts and what-not for. ,th 9- : :: boys" away : from: home, and the\ Town' JHall corridor, prior tp-the meeting, ivßen the ladiea foregather for, an enjoyaSlo chat on matters patriotic,and otherwise, r was the" scene of much animated discud- ° In the course of the meeting,--liowevcr,;r any fears as-to the possibility of any - of the Auckland material meeting wita. a similar fate were quickly dispelled. As luck would have it, for a lew days prior I" to the meeting a small sheaf of letters. had poured into the office of the league >f from Egypt, Trsntham, and other quar--19 tere acknowledging .with expressions of c ; raTe warmth and cordiality the grati-... tude of-the soldiers for ths work under- ■ 1C taken in their behalf by the ladies of the league. Miss Spedding, the energetic -V n honorary secretary, was able to give the 1° assurance to. the meeting that for I months past acknowledgment of the safe arrival and distribution of the gifts from the league had regularly come to hand, and she ad-ded that not a single' instance had been brought to ,her notice of gift ■ consignments from Auckland going astray. ' *",_.'" r Subsequently Mies .Spedding told -a-, "Star' reporter that, of coure'e, tha league recognised the possibility of occa- . sional consignments going astray or "being delayed through the failure, .of . j some apathetic or overworked. ..official 3 promptly to distribute the goods,'but t even if as much as'2s percent, of tha j material failed to reach those for whom t it-was intended thfr-ract that re-, maining 75 per cent, brought- p?caeu're - s and comfort to the boys; -wounded or hale, was justification for tiic "contlnu---' s anee of the woric of the league, fiappilv, ] there .was no evidence that a<riy of the ? I Auckland material was failing to reach if the isoidic-a*. - : The'guarantee : t'ae _ deliver}' of gifts for the troops largely ~ lay in the full and correct addressing Jf the packages.