WELCOME OFFICE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18543, 19 November 1925, Page 6

WELCOME OFFICE.

TO VOLUNTEER 3&Am9 HOSPITALITY IN ENGI&Jw _ to "ibs r*iM.") r .fSffig AUCKLAND, X«rt|(|| r : fl| An offer to extend h&snjtl&Jafl England to volunteers who Vtrsjgßf ned overseas steamers is a cablegram received by an gentleman from Mrs J. of Professor Haldane, of sister-in-law of Lord Haldane makes the offer on TUJJIBSm tho Victoria League in I*»4oS!^SffE The cablegram asks for of the numbers of veluatetr iiSBI and of the ships which to ma':. A reply has beet IMf«B over -00 men have already ftSajKßi steamers bound for British pa«tai?Sfl| Haldane is advised to apply ticulars of \he dates of arrivabji*|jH| London oAces of the T r panics. She is also advised tJstSKI important to see that lodgiu u9H for good-class men is secured, their embarkatiou on the to New Zealand. i^H The Victoria League's offer feaa.wia as a surprise. It has been mad«3H taneously, no suggestion in thk tion having been made in New Several parents of volunteers kmH pressed gratification that so aoSH an organisation should be preMttj9| look after their sons while ia, |hbH The League has, of course, IMmB sources, and can open up avf|jg§jjfl hospitality which would be dwSH the ordinary visitor ts Victoria League had cxperieaea work on a much larger scale f|9| the war, and most returned soldiemK have grateful memories of its a«fofl| Tho association of Mrs Haldane with the present offer will happy recollections for many &j9e Zealand soldier. She did mueh the war for the entertainment seas soldiers, and her home in suburb of Oxford was always men wlio were billeted in the Colleges for training as nfficoraM^H