QUIET SERVICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 236, 4 October 1940, Page 11

QUIET SERVICE.

MERCHANT SEAMEN.

CHAPLAIN PATS TRIBUTE. "These men who man the suij« which, brin;; poods to the Dominion arrive without notice, and go awiay just as quietly." raid the Rer. U. K. Vickery. chaplain to the Seamen's Mission, in paying a tribute to the British merchant seamen at the Auckland Women's Luncheon jClub yesterday. The luncheon took place at Milne and Choyce's reception hall.

'•When the merchant men arrive in their ships at Auckland we, of the Seamen's Mission, never hear them complain of the hardships or the strain they have suffered because of the war," continued Mr. Vickery. "They do, however, worry about their families in England, and the first question we are askfil by them is whether air raids hare been reported over a certain village or town.

An appeal was made by the speaker to members of the club to take an interest in the work of the Seamen's Mission, which did so much to make the lot of the merchant seamen * pleasant one when they were in port. The president, Miss Freda Brookes, was in the chair. Vocal duets were

;;ivcn by Mrs. \V. X. Dimcry and Miss E. Yeoman, Miss Q. Poore aorom|niring. The hostesses were Mrs. X. HDixon. Mrs. W. Shaw, Mrs. J. W. Bailey and Mrs. W. X. Dimery.