COMFORTS FOR SOLDIERS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3151, 31 July 1942, Page 5

COMFORTS FOR SOLDIERS

(To the Editor) .Sir,-—May I, through your columns, reply to “Fair Play” who seems to have the sofa and armchair on what the old saying goes as “stuck in hi& gizard.” I have studied both his letters and have decided that his source of information cannot be too satisfactory. Firstly I would like to ask him to come out in the open and be put on the right track. 'Secondly I still maintain that no member of the Signals Section asked for the donation mentioned and Canon Weadon must be under the impression that everyone in the building is- a signalman or he made the request thinking that if he asked he would foe doing the boys a good turn.

Next, I have yet to meet the man, woman or child who does not count themselves first, war or no war. It would not be human nature. And last but not least, there are in Paeroa one or two people who have been kind enough to give the boys a ping-pong table and a wireless set to make their “home” something like home and if “Fair Play” would ’only follow the example of good-natured pepole he might do himself a benefit by disgorging the sofa and chair that really do seem to be causing him a lot of unnecessary worry.—l am, etc., FAIR BOTH WAYS. .