MAIL TOBACCO FUND

Nelson Evening Mail, 3 August 1916, Page 4

MAIL TOBACCO FUND

POSTCARDS FROM THE FRONT.

Postcards from soldiers at the front returning thanks for tobacco sent through the Mail Tobacco Fund havebeen received for the following:— Ida, M. R. W. Grace, H. O. Ledger, J. B. Kattems, Nelson Concert Orchesr tra. Brightwaler Farmers' Field ■■■■ Day ■Committee, Mrs Fowler, Mrs Morris, CKing, A. Eyles, Mrs Dencker, J, l ?- Doidge, Miss A. Mayo, S. Hirst, N.Z., Irwin, Miss N. Gilkison, Miss .Qlasa Max, Miss G. Cock, Mrs Geo. Brown, Thomas Hunt, Nelson Hockey Association, Daddy, Rival Football Gl-üb, Lady Liverpool Assistance Fund, Miss E. Stewart, Miss J. Ledger, Miss .RubyHarling, Mary and Betty, E. ( Langley Adams Buxton's Office Box, John Webley senr., Lorna, Miss Hebbard and Miss G. Hebbard, J. McPherson, Mvs E. O. Weir.

One of the postcards to the Brightwater Farmers' Field Day Day Committee states: "Cheero Farmers! Have just w.hackedi up your baccy and cigarettes among the section. Great delight! Theynearly scrap over dividing it, averts their attention from the shells going overhead. We're having lovely weather for it, and any little anxieties we have over high explosives aa-e calmed by the soothing fumes." The boys received this lot of cigarettes and tobacco in the trenches, and one and all are most grateful for the gifts. speak of the motives that prompt;. edi the gifts and also of the pleasure derived from the "smokes." Hundreds of postcards received during the war have stated that the "smokes" arrived when the boys were "clean out," so it can be seen that the gift business is lot overdone.

Every sixpence sent to the Evening Mail means 30 cigarettes and 2 ounces of tobacco for some soldiers at .the front. Gifts can be sent to any individual in the- Army or Navy provided the address is fully stated. _ Not one pennv is deducted by the Mail for the working expenses of the Fund; As previously stated, the reason' why such wonderful -value is obtained is because the British Government remits: the duty and the War Office and' the Admiralty carries the good's .without charge. CHRISTMAS GIFTS. ' i Last year the Lady Liverpool Fund sent some £6O worth of tobacco -rind cigarettes through the Fund and 'arsjo numbers of postcards have been received returning thanks. Organisations or clubs of any kind *jesirous of sending Christmas gifts ;tr> the boys through the Fundi would do well t.> set to work without undue deuJ»'. Tlr.e will ensure >the gifts arriving at the right time.