GOOD WORK APPRECIATED.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2857, 31 January 1916, Page 2

GOOD WORK APPRECIATED.

Corporal F. A. Smith,,of the Grenadier Guards, in the: Barrack Hospital. Millbaaik, London, has sent the following to tho Feilding Ladies Committee, which explains itself: "I am writing on behalf of my comrades and myself- lo thank you and the ladies of New Zealand for the flannel shirts wh'ch you sent for our comfort in 'hospital, which wo greatly appreciate this cold weather. We have an Australian nursing sister in charge of our ward, Miss Bowles, of Perth West. Au.Hfir-a.lin-. and she said you would be pleased if we wrote and thanked you. Again thanking you."

There have heen just as many visitors as usual at Rotorua. this season, the majority bcieng Australians and New Kealaiidors. with few from America or Britain. Mr H. R. Strachau. of Apiti drew flip, first, pniap in tlie P. A. Mcllardy art union, which will produce £9500 for the Palmerston Patriotic Fund. Feilding members of the 10th Reitiiforcenicuits qf (tie + MH,iui Body amd of the 3rd Reinforcements of the N.Z. Rifle Brigade were in town yesterday paying their final visits to their homes lieforo their departure for the- front. .Schools throughout, the Wanganui Education Board's district will reopen, after the Christmas and New Year holidays to-movow. Those in tha Feilding' district have- :i holiday on Wednesday, People's Day of tlir Feilding Show. On the ircvilatioiii of Lieut.-Colonel Hardio Niel, a number of Feild/ug folks, inpludiing several members" of tho"'Patriotic Committee, Visited' the Ambulance 'Camp at Awamini, and w'm-o hospitaMy entertained. Many people from Feilding and district also visited tho Rangiotu camp yesterday.

it is necessary for a ycung man to qualify";' There is only one answer -—Yes. Tho young man who volunteers for the front knows it is absolutely necessary, so goes into camp and puts in three months' hard training to become.efficient. What about the young man who cannot go? What is he doing in tho way of training? It is he to whom the country looks to carry on the' commercial war. Is he going to turn his country down because he doesn't want to train? Be a man and play the game. Think What tho fupurp has hi store for you. It only means an hour or'so a day for a very small portion of your life and your future is iittgUi'ti'l'. iteme!»he:" this, your brother is doing his share in trenches, and doing it manfully. Won't you do yours, too? Keep the wheels of commerce going and be a leader. Mr Hemingway, F.I.A. (N.Z.), solicitor, director of Hemingway and Robertson's Correspondence Schools, Ltd., Auckland and Melbourne, will tell you how to qualify to become a bookkeeper, accountant, bhorthand-y/riter, lawyer, civil, mechanical, electrical. 01 minipg engineer, etc. Call and see him at Knyvctt and Pratt's office, Manchester Square, Feilding, to-day., between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. o.r 3 p.m. and 5.30 p.m., or to-night between 7 and 9 o'clock. J, J, Rich, Travelling Representative;.