MR SMEETON'S LECTURE TONIGHT.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3234, 7 May 1917, Page 2

MR SMEETON'S LECTURE TONIGHT.

A returned soldier, Mr Walter Copland, speaks in warm terms of praiso of tho ■V.M.C.A. travelling motor restaurant, which sorves out l'tie cups of tea and a " snack" at .il hours of iho day and night 'o soldiers on troop trains, hospital irtnns, and motor transport. Tin's work is magnificently organised, and cook'ng and everything else is done by <• inn tary labour. Tho soldiers look hugely to tho V.M.C.A. commissariat, an<l tho huts whore refreshments a reserved out am simply irushed. At Mr FT. M. Smooton's locturn in Iho Trill Mall to-night—a lecture which is free to all — si first-hand story will 'Iks tod of the great work done by tho '■ M. O.A. in training camps in England iind behind tho firing-lino in Franco. Thorn should bo a bumper house to hoar Mr Smocton's account of 'ns special mission on hplinlf of tho V.M.C.A.