VETERANS' ASSOCIATION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16921, 29 July 1915, Page 11

VETERANS' ASSOCIATION.

THE PROPOSED HOME FOR CANTERBURY. On Tuesday evening the Veterans' Association held a very successful social gathering in their rooms. There was a very good attendance of members and their lady friends, among the members being a number in uniform who are going to the front. The evening was spent in dancing and progressive euchre, interspersed with songs and recitations. *

Lieutenant Timbrel!, organiser of the project to raiae funds to provide a Veterans' Home, ha 6 received many offers of assistance, especially in connection with the proposed military bazaar and rose show on December 4. The association wishes to thank those who have forwarded reading matter for tho soldiers. A billiard table is still required, and it is hoped to have it erected in the course of a week. Gifts of games, such as draughts, chess and so on, would also be -very aooepftable.

All arrangements have now been com • pleted for the art union in aid of the fund to establish a Veterans' Home in Canterbury, and tickets will be on sale in the course of a few days. The prizes will be in the foim of gold nuggets. The National Bank of New Zeaid has been instructed to procure the and the sum of £SOO has been ixisited by the association. . The lirst prize will be a nugget worth £l5O and the second prize is worth £IOO. the other prizes being in lesser value down to £5. Altogether there will be thirty prizes, all gold nuggets. The good work of the Veterans' Association has already been acknowledged by many people, and yesterday an additional compliment was paid to the association by the receipt of a letter from Mr Robert Wilson, of Charles Street, Kaiapoi. a brother of the late Private J. D. Wilson, a Crimean veteran, who died on July 16. Mx Wilson wrote as follows:—" Dear Lieutenant Timbrell.—lt is with a deep feeling of gratitude that I write you these few lines to thank you and the members of the Veterans' Association for their great kindness to my brother, the late J. D. Wilson. I cannot thank you enough for the many ways in which you helped my brother when alive, and the manner in which you arranged the funeral shows the whole-hearted interest you and the members take in our old soldiers. Wishing you every success in youT scheme for building a veterans' home.—Yours faithfully, R. Wilson."