RETURNED SOLDIERS' APPEAL DALS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2941, 29 November 1916, Page 9

RETURNED SOLDIERS' APPEAL DALS

.Sooner or later the State will ho confronted with great and serious problems. A\hilst tho war is raging all our energies are bent on. winning the war, but those who have already laced the actual experience, who are maimed, and whose nerves are shattered, realiso what it means to return to civilian life, and once more become ordinary citizens, a task which seems almost superhuman. An institution such as the "Returned Soldiers' Club" is an important factor in solving the difficulty, and pointing out the right path for the man who is back from the front. Whilst, the club offers most excellent accommodation for its, members, and in connection with it, great social advantages, tho foremost and potent factor in its work consists of bringing tho man back to his citizenship, thujs, fulfilling a national necessity, and ono worthy of support and recognition by the public. In the club ho meets hjs former comrades—men who have fought and shared ■with him all tho discomforts and dangers of a soldier's life, and who have ' settled down to their former occupations. Thus ho is fortified in his struggle of life, and his burden lessened. The club, which has now been established for somo time, is controlled by. u pommittco consisting of six returned soldiers and six prominent citizens, in prder to ensure that the interests of donors and subscribers to the club funds aro being thoroughly safeguarded. ' Rcmombcr, tho club is not only for tho boys who are already here, but also for the thousands yet lo return. Subscriptions and donations may bo sent to tho treasurers, Messrs. Clarke and Monzies, 107 Lambton Quay. J. P. LUKE, Mayor of AVellington. 11. ,J. RTOTT. General Secretary A. 'I'. CLAItKE. :0. R. MENZIES, Joint Hon. Treasurers..