THE CHURCH ARMY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4962, 31 August 1918, Page 3

THE CHURCH ARMY.

220 of our Recreation Huts were in tlie shell zone, 100 lost during the first German advance. We desire to help to replace them 20 Huts to add to the hundreds given to the Empire, by the Mother Country have lately been given and 8 others nearly subscribed for m New Zealand; the Wanganui Jockey Club giving the 21st hut. £SOO provides a fully-paid-up Hut. £3OO provides a Recreation lent, lined and warmed. Each cost £o weekly to maintain. , A £IOOO Kitchen Car was lately given by a Hawke’s Bay family to the Church Army, in memory of one who “died on the field of battle. Thirty Kitchen Cars, carrying hot drinks, etc., close up to the trenches, provided by the Church Army for all soldiers of the King. Who will give another? 20,000 Monthly Magazines bought, for the use of the 200,000 soldiers who daily use onr Huts. 1100 Beds always ready for soldiers on leave from France in our “Homes Away from Home.” We have been given charge of motherless children of sailors and soldiers who are fighting for the King. And spend £400,000 yearly among the poor. *. Parcels sent to Prisoners m Germany. Hospital for Septic Wounded at Tankerton —manyi New Zealand soldiers treated there. Ten beds endowed by Wellington War Relief Association. _, , The King., Right Hon. LloydGeorge, Admirals and Generals, _ and Hon. Mr.' Massey each have written of the work of the Church Army. “Open to all.” The Military Affairs Committee and Church Army together commence with the care of the N.Z. soldier when he enters camp, and will continue it ''till he marches through Berlin. Help this Empire Work by donations to Secretary M.A.C., 20 Mulgrave Street. Wellington, or Rev. F. W. Whibley, hon. New Zealand secretary for the Church Army, the Vicarage, Ormondville, Hawke’s Bay, or local secretaries appointed by him. N.B.—lf you prefer it, earmark your donation for either of these:— Huts, Tents Soldiers’* Motherless Children, Parcels to Prisoners of War, C.A. Hospital, Recreation Rooms for Munition Workers, lrench ■ Comforts, Rotorua Institute, or N.Z. Camps. Subscriptions may bp forwarded to Rev. H. Packe, The Vicarage, Gisborne, local agent for Poverty Bay.