CORRESPONDENCE.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2888, 7 March 1916, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

"WHAT CAN 1 DO?"

To -the School -Children of Now Zealand.

Dear Boy_s and Girls,-—On April 25 many of our Brothers and Fathers landed on Gallipoli. When the news flashed over the cables, tlie whole world seemed to stand still for a moment i-u wonder. They 'had achieved "tho impossible." We -have received a letter from Wellington signed "Uncle Tom," who writes asking, tihe children to do something big on April 25: "1 am very pleased with your League Orphanage 'scheme. Boys and girls, what do you say to Unole Tom's suggestion.? Are you game to do sometlyi-ng Li g off your own bat ? Many Little boys and -girls have lost their father durnug the war, and tlhey havo been nearly forgotten. Would you like to show them that you have notP 1 !_a.ve 'before me a, lettei stating that- the Salvation Army want to erect live homes—at Auckland, Duned'in, Cihristolinwoh (2), and Island Bay—and the whole will cost £10,000. Can you help us? What do you say, boys and girls, to- celebrating April 25 by making a present to' the little | orphans. I've been told it's impossible, it'ii too big a thing to do. If you will l_a,vo a> try, get up concerts, sports, bazaars. Soil a-nytihing that ia your very own. Please don't collect money or have rallies. Let everything ,bo your own service. It's kind action we want and to show our fighting men we don't forget: shall we call April 2-5 Forget-Me-Not Day? Our treasurer wa*s ■mt the landing on Gallipoli and saw some fathers fall, leaving their children to your care. Goodbye! I hope when your grow up and have farms and businesses of your- own you will employ tihe orphan children you now 'help; it's your service to the nation." Can you do the on April 25. Write us what you can do.

F. NORRIB, Hon. Organiser National Service League. Master ton.