CITY RENDEZVOUS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 64, 12 September 1942, Page 8

CITY RENDEZVOUS

POPULAR WITH TROOPS

Another wing to provide a separate games room is to be added to the hut for servicemen conducted at the railway station by the Salvation Army for the Wellington Provincial Patriotic Council. The cost will be £750. A contract has been let, and it is hoped to make a start with the work next week. This hut is popular with all service-! men, including Americans. In Jan-J vary of this year the hut was catering j on the average for 2023 men weekly. By July the average had risen to 9652, and this figure has been fairly well maintained since then. As many as 7511 cups of tea weekly have been served in the last few months. Besides the serving of refreshments there is a kit room where members of the forces may leave their coats and other equipment. The hut is staffed by Salvation Army personnel, who give great praise to the voluntary assistance they receive from a panel of 60 Wellington' women. VISITS TO CAMPS. Next week the Hon. Vincent Ward, M.L.C., honorary secretary of the Wellington Provincial Patriotic Council, will visit camps in the province in connection with the provision of sports gear, woollen goods, and other amenities. He will also visit the patriotic .committees in the province. ' Yesterday he accompanied Messrs. J. W. Andrews and E. W. Wise on a.visit to camps in the Wellington area, and in one district arranged for a hall to be taken over as a club and for recreational and sports gear to be supplied. The club will be run by tl.e women's patriotic committee of the district on similar lines to the management of clubs in other outlying districts.