CLUBS FOR NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2670, 17 January 1916, Page 6

CLUBS FOR NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS

"THE DUG OUT." The club which has been opened at 3 Victoria Street for New Zealand soldiers was given a very auspicious start when the High Commissioner, Lord Plunket, and other officials of the New Zealand War Contingent Association, accepted the hospitality of tlio club. The premises are now open, and large numbers of soldiers have been in every day, reading the papers, playing games, and taking light refreshment. The catering department, which is a vers important feature of the club, is being run by Miss Evelyn Williams, assisted by Mrs. and the Misses Burnett. In tlio general management, Miss Hilda Williams is assisted by Miss Walsh, Mrs. Blakemore, Jtiss Boyd,, Mrs. Anson, Miss Parfitt, Lady Augusta Inskip, Mrs. M'Leaii, and Miss Macdonald.

THE EPSOM CLUB. The club room, which has been established in Epsom Town, by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Williams, is being extensively patronised by the convalescent New Zealand soldiers, who are now at Woodcoto Park Convalescent Homo. Epsom is about two miles distant from Woodcote Park, it is the nearest town, and is visited daily by New Zealand soldiers, who much appreciate the establishment of this club-room in the town. Mr. Williams, who is the son of the late Bishop Williams, saw that a clubroom would prove a very useful institution, and he accordingly took steps to have one established. This club has a three-quarter size billiard table, and the canteen provides the usual light refreshments. There is also a tobacco license. The hours of opening are from 2.30 to 9 p.m., and a number of local ladies very kindly give their services in the management. There is also in the club-rooin a depot for the comforts issued by the Ladies' Committee of the New Zealand War Contingent Association, and this is in charge of Mrs. Warren. Thero are also two very large hospitals in Epsom—one, the County of London War Hospital, with 2500 beds, an dthe other the Epsom and Ewell, run by private subscriptions. There are fifty New Zealanders in these hospitals, and they are visited by Mrs. Arthur Williams and Mrs. Warren.