CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 237, 21 September 1914, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE.

fit must be distinctlv understood that we are not to be identified with the opinions expressed by corrospondentf in our columns. ] N.Z. FIELD AM Bl LANCE AID FUND. APPEAL TO THE WELLINGTON MILITARY DISTRICT. TO THE FOiTon • ?tr.—Before our depart ure v.e arc endeavouring to raise a special fund for an object which we are assured v ;r appeal to ;•!! aril especially to those who have r^i;>cions and friends enrolle d in the N.Z. Expedi--1 ionary Force. It is • w-.l that the lai>ie majority of sick and w ( ,mided New Zealanders mus-: be drafted home through the medium of the N.Z. Field Ambulance and it U e ssential that there niusi be a fund available io assist invalids on their U i'ir : i<> irncy >■> Al-' Domini< u. Ext’.'.' <•;u ■ vay oi supplies, clothes, n.q.'rovcd u.ecommodation or other e»s; mials to ensure favotirab.e and fairly eo.-'ifort-abhj conditions on ihc r. lean journey. will be often in gcntiy needed and will in no small way contribute to the wellbeing and uhunakt. recovery of mval’ded .coopers. It is hoped that we shall be able to raise a sum of £l6OO which snail he strict.y allocated to the objtci in tiew under the control oi the medical oihcers attached to -he Fp’ld Aiubul-

■, ance Corps. Major O'Neill, of Dunedin, and Major Murray, of Auckland, are row raising funds in theii lespective centres for this purpose. Me feel sure that the generosity and public | spirit l ,as always characterised the dwellers of Wellington District I will bo again manifested in the supI port of a scheme upon which rhe ;!:eakh and lives of the men under I our charge may in no small degree I depend. Any money subscribed for this purpose should be telegraphed to the Bank of New Zealand, London, to "Field Ambulance Aid Fund, " which will be administered by the three senior officers of the Field Ambulance. I hope to raise in the Wellington Military District about £6O(J. —I am, etc., i C. MACKIE BEGG, Lieut. Col. c o Expeditionary Force, Field Ambulance.