SOLDIERS' ICOUPONS

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 185, 7 August 1917, Page 2

SOLDIERS' ICOUPONS

A HANDY FORM OF GIFT

A new scheme for reaching our soldiers on active service with gifts from their friends and relatives has just been set on foot by the Y.M.C.A., with every prospect of meeting a widely-felt. need. - Acting'promptly on the -suggestion/of a soldier, it 'has 'completed, arrangements for the issue' of threepenny coupons in neat little booklets of ten/and twenty that can be conveniently enclosed in a letter. These coupons are . redeemable in goods at any of the Y.M.O.A. canteens, wliich are to be found practically wherever the men arc. "An iuitial order for 100,000 of these booklets, .some at half-a-c.rown,'.and some at fivo shillings, is, already in the printers' .hands in AVellington. Tlie obvious advantage .of these coupons is that they provide a specially convenient and attractively simple means of sending small sunis of-money to the front, where they can bo readily turned _in no eatables or some; other requirement of tbe moment, procurable at the Y.M.C.A. huts.

Tho scheme has the approval of the Government, and tho postal authorities have consented to handle the coupons and see to their distribution without- fee or reduction of any sort. The Wellington district is to be first supplied, and within a few days the booklets will bo procurable at any of the SOO money-order offices throughout the Dominion. It is anticipated that as soon as tho- simplicity and economy of the system becomes known to the public it will be very widelj' availed of. "