READING FOR OUR BOYS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2733, 2 June 1915, Page 4

READING FOR OUR BOYS.

. - -. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.. Sir, — Can you find room for :i referen.ce to Camp Libraries in your next issue, jjlea.se ? -1 feel sure-that most ■of your' readers have magazines, ; novels, and books of humour; .roli- \ gious or philosophical books arc* not j wanted. Fifteen thousand a week are .('sent to the front from London alone, i and more nro wanted. i! We Iwnt should supply our hospital J j| ship, our base hospitals, our soldiers j'-iit the front, and our troops in Egypt. jj f luvvo received s])lendkl parcels of 5 books and magazines from .Miss C. S. W. Herdniau ami Mr W. C«. Clapham, ', of Kiwitea; from Messrs E. Hay- ; thonio, S. S. Steele, C. Jensen, aiu! \ other emaller contributions. I" am at ;,the present time in communication i witli Mrs Massey (the Prcmiei-'s wife) i and Mr C. Wilson (Parliamentary ! LiKrarian), both of whom arc inter- !{ c.sting themselves in the work as to J how they are to bo sorted and where ' the different lots are to be consigned. ; Mr Thos. "Watson, Returning Offi- ; cor, Sandilands Buildings, Fcilding, is J receiving books, etc., and Mr Benson j has kindly consented to act as a col- | lector. k;. Jt. seems that few rocogniso why so many are wanted, hut if one could irmly realise that in trench fighting one has to bo on watch while'many aro sitting with absolutely nothing, to do for hours, often extended to days and 1 weeks. A papor-covcred novel or even ! magazine is to thorn a Godsend, also I for hospitals. No plea I can make is j required, I feel sure.—l. aln, etc., Chas. E. Leyien. Kimboltou, Jiuie 1, 1915.