COMFORTS FOR SOLDIERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16022, 14 September 1915, Page 5

COMFORTS FOR SOLDIERS.

INVALIDS ON TRANSPORTS. » OPENING FOR WOMEN'S EFFORTS. [BT TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington. Monday. When the Hon. G. W. Russell was in Auckland recently he was asked if women who "were anxious to find ways of helping the troops would be allowed to provide comforts for the use of invalid men on the returning transports. Mr. Russell placed the matter before the Minister for Defence on his return to Wellington, and he informed a pressman to-day that there was an opening for some effort along the; lines that had been suggested to him. " The Minister for Defence tells me that everything possible is done to make the trip of the returning soldiers a pleasant and comfortable one," said Mr- Russell. "Additional uniforms, medical comforts, etc., are placed on the outgoing transports in case they have to bring 'invalided men back to the Dominion. Anything that may be of use on the voyage" will be gladly accepted by the Defence Department. These should be securely packed, marked with a list of the contents, and for what purpose intended, and delivered to Captain Bilton, Defence Store, No. 3 shed, King's Wharf, Wellington." The Minister added that the cases would be placed aboard the transports as occasion arose, and every care would be taken to ensure that the goods reached the troops for whom they •were intended.

FUNDS IN THE SOUTH. ASHBURTON'S AMBITION. [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AsHBxrRTOK, Monday. The Rev. J. R. Burgin, at the close of his sermon at St. Stephen's Church yesterday morning, made an appeal to people to subscribe, liberally to the War Fund of £25,000 which the Patriotic Committee have set themselves to raise for Ashburton District Wounded Soldiers' Fund. He stated that he had given to him that morning, from an Asbburton lady, five hundred guineas in bank notes for the fund.