Keeping in Touch With the Soldier
There is a fine spirit behind the desire of any locality to maintain touch with its own boys who are serving in the forces overseas. This* can be done through letters, and an occasional parcel. But the giving of day to day service in cheering up the lads from home can ohly be done through the Salvation Army and Y.MiC.A. badked by the fighting services welfare fund. Fifty men may leave a town for camp, and for a while remain together, but a time comes When half of them may' be needed in another unit, and during active service conditions some may find themselves in another battalion after a stay at the base. Mails and parcels will reach them in time, but the Y.M.C.A. and the Salvation Army can be relied on tc be always, with them.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20186, 2 March 1940, Page 6
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