PAPERS FOR INVALID TROOPERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9093, 12 July 1915, Page 4

PAPERS FOR INVALID TROOPERS

■To the Editor "N.Z. Times.” Sir, —I visited the Trenthain camp on Friday last, and the. only wish expressed by the cheery invalids in the grandstand was for some daily papers. .. Such a desire could not .fail to move to sympathy one whose daily task is to assist in the production of a newspaper, and I therefore venture to ask if you will kindly .get your publisher to. send twelve copies of the "New Zealand Times" daily to the Trentham hospital until the

sovereign enclosed has been exhausted. I am making a similar request to each of your contemporaries. My reason for referring thus jrahlicly to the matter is the hope that some of the citizens of Wellington who have shown such a kindly interest in the welfare of "bur boys” will, now that their attention has been drawn to the want, supplement the small effort X am able to make. I know that the newspaper proprietors of New Zealand have been very generous in supplying • papers to the troops, and I do not think it would be fair to ask them to do more. May X add that I was very much impressed with the immense improvement which Colonel Valintine had effected in the treatment and accommodation of the invalids- during the short time he has been in charge. But a bovo all one could not help admiring the splendid pluck and cheerfulness of the patients. Most of us when ill, even in the comfortable surroundings of home, are apt to be grumpy and downhearted, and all of ns in this respect might learn a lesson from the boys at Trentham. They are emphatically "the right stuff.” —I am. etc., W. H. TEIGGS. Christchurch, July 9th.