AGAIN SOMEBODY'S CHANCE

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 6, 8 January 1917, Page 5

AGAIN SOMEBODY'S CHANCE

[TO THF BDTTOB.I

Sir.—ln response to mv letter of tbe ; lGth December, the 24th "Reinforcements wero presented last Thursday »vith 20 ticket* each before they left for Trentham. a rift which they one and all thoroughly appreciated. The money for hoe * tickets was collected in a very short time, and given willingly by true "sports" who fully recognised ".hat- those who were leaving were {living up. Tomorrow the . 2oths leave." and it 7'eimiins' to be seen how they will be treated. Surely, though the time is s'v.oi't, .they ivill be treated likewise. There uiro many men in this district who cflnld nre^ent ovwy man who has left with twenty tickeis and. never missthe mnni'v a<- much as .some of those who gave out of, their weekiiy earnings. * -*

About 1300 men ,lr,-»ve loft Mailborough for tho iront?. many never to return, aixl a Wge niimber have been wo'inde^l.' Now. if some:'of. our weailthy settlers clubbed togwtiier fl>ey could o-i.sily nresfiit the local Wounded SolJicrs Fnud with ."£I3OO, wh.ich would svlsovcavr.y' with it.26.G00 tickets for the, solrlii-rs. The odds are then that a soldiei would win one of the pnzes, if not the £1500. It would be a j^rea-t^gift for our local soldiers, and besides, out of the many thousand colonials lighting and giving up $feir lives voluntarily t«-da,y, they would p-mbnibiy be the only ones receiving n like gift, and

'.at the same ;irae £3000 or.more for their wounded. It would lio.-a great advertisement throughout tho Dominion, especially as all have gone voluntarily. The scheme only requires thirteen people to give £100 ea/ch to tho Wounded Soldiers Fund, and there must 00 many times thirteen people who can easily afford* to do this. OPTIMIST.