Y.M.C.A. WAR WORK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16300, 5 August 1916, Page 8

Y.M.C.A. WAR WORK.

IMMENSE ORGANISATION. COMMISSIONERS FOR THE FRONT. New Zealand, although now well represented in Y.M.C.A. work amongst the forces at the front, will soon be farther officially represented. Mr. W. J- Jameson. chairman of the New Zealand National Committee of the Y.M.C.A., ar Mr. H. M. Smeeton. on Tuesday nen will leave us commissioners fur the battle front. Mr. R. Varney is also going » supervising secretary in connection « the. work "now being done by men previously sent from New Zealand. Am*** member of the party will be Mr. F*» Shacklock, formerly Mayor of Dunedffi, who is taking his own motor-car for se vice at the front. Mr. W. E. Sargo*. of Dunedin. one of the Australian coning sioners, arrived by the Main Iran* :» press yesterday afternoon, and wfll e with the New Zealand party. " We are desirous of still further looting after the welfare of the New Zeal** men at the front." said one of the cow missioners to a representative of Herald vesterday. " Our work is aire J well known, but we are most desirous seeing that nobody is neglected it at all possible. The Y.M.C.A. has is immense organisation, ana iu ar » essentially cosmopolitan. Even No JJJ before war was declared the «*£**» datum asked the War Office bote + could serve the Empire in f." bro te being declared. When the «»£"* out the Y.M.C.A. was actually ready ft eanipments tor field services, ■*''".• has a tremendous number o. cemr»The commissioners are going » battle front at their own expense.