WORK AMONG SOLDIERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16589, 12 July 1917, Page 6

WORK AMONG SOLDIERS.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND EFFORT. A meeting of members of the Church of England was held in St. Sepulchre's Parish Hall last evening. Dr. A. W. Averill, Bishop of Auckland, presided. The main object of the meeting was to urge the claims for assistance to the Church workers among the men in camp and at the front.

Mr. R. W. Simpson, of Christchurch, honorary financial organiser for the Military Affairs Committee of the Church, in an address, appealed for support to the effort now being made to raise £10,000 in New Zealand to maintain and extend the work of tho Church among the men in camp, and to provide grants for this purpose to chaplains on active service. Extremely interesting accounts of their work among the soldiers at the battle of the Scmme were given by Chaplain-Major Hawkins and Chaplain-Captain Burgin, tne latter giving, from a personal diary some vivid details of incidents of tho" V>mme battle. Chaplain-Captain Williams fpoke interestingly of his work among the New Zealand soldiers in Egypt and Palestine, and in the course of his address paid a warm tribute to the work of the New Zealand Mounted Brigade. . At . ,1 lose °* the meeting a collection in aid of the fund was made, the proceeds totalling over £100.