SALVATION ARMY WAR WORK

Evening Star, Issue 16628, 10 January 1918, Page 3

SALVATION ARMY WAR WORK

AN APPEAL FOR FUNDS. We Jiavt) received the folowing roinmujiisation;— The New Zealand branch of the Salvation Army is making its first groat national appeal to fclio people of the Dominion for help in the Army's splendid work in tho interests of our soldiers in the firing lino and in the hospitals and camps in Eng* land, France, and Now Zealand, ni their ambulance ■ corps work, and in countless other ways Until mine months ago the International Headquarters of tho "Salvation Army bore tho major part of the expenses in connection with its great humane war work at the front The leaders of the Array in Now Zealand feel that the public should now come in with greater support and further tills good work, especially seeing that tho International Head Office, in tho first two years and a-half of war, has spent over a quarter of a. million of monev. There is such widespread and thankful recognition of the Army’s invaluable work —work that has never Tagged since tho inception of the war, but has been continued with untiring xeal, and has merited and received tho depest gratitude of outbrave soldiers and their relatives—that tiro request of Commissioner Hodder that committees of citizens in tho various centres should bo set up to mush tho apjteal has met with a. ready response. Adjutant Hosting, who has visited Dunedin to start tho fund hero, has been mod cordially received by tho .Mayor and the basinet rnon of tho Oily whopi ho has met, and a largo committee has been formed to raise in tms Oity and provincial district their proportionate share of the £50,000 which it is hoped wili result from the Dominion’s canvass. In order that the nsea to which the money is to bo applied may be clearly understood, the allocation is set out by Commissioner Hodder its follows:—For work with tire troops acro-s the seas, £55,000; divided between Mm undermentioned viz., comforts for wounded soldiers, £15.000; for hn tin cut work and comforts for men in tho fighting areas, hostel work, etc-. £15.000; to motor ambulance corps, £5,000 ; for the maintenance and advancement of our mililaiv ' work_ in New Zealand. £15,000. .It i s worthy of .mention, in connection with the Army’s work in tho New Zealand unitary camps, that on tho 17th November the major and adjutant in charge of Fealherston Gamp wrote as follows to Major _ Stone, who is at the bead of the Salvation Army hontel at that camp: “ Dear major,—Your achievement for ()<■,- tober is index! remarkable, and to supply 8.000 meals and 5,600 beds in one month is a very practical demonstration of the great need there was fin- a soldiers’ hostel in the district. lam sure.'if you heard the many complimentary remarks which are made upon your untiring efforts in making the hostel so comfortable' for tho soldiers' wives, you would feel that your staff and self .are doing a good deal to make the time spent by the men in this training camp as happy as possible for themselves and mve<— Nkvji.pk Nkwcombk, Major and Adjutant.” . A* chairman and hon. treasurer respectively of a committee formed in Dunedin to help t.bo Salvation Ainiy to raise ilig funds of which they are in urgent, need, we commend the appeal to your favorable consideration, merely saying that wo know of no section of the philanthropic work of 'the war that is more deserving 0 f widespread public support. G. Fen-wick. Chairman. G, I. Dkn-n-tston, Hon. Treasurer.