FOR THE SICK AND WOUNDED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16547, 22 November 1915, Page 6

FOR THE SICK AND WOUNDED

NEW ZEAIiANDERS UNDER

HOSPITAL TBEATMENT,

The need for the provision of additional funda to admit of comforts being supplied to the sick and ■wounded New Zealand soldiers in England having been brought under the notice of the community, we have appealed to the publio for subscriptions to an Invalid Soldiers' Fund, ■which may be applied to the object of securing that the New Zealandera in hospital at Home and, where necessary, elsewhere may obtain these comforts. To this appeal we have received a very handsome response, over £700 having been placed at our disposal in a period of a fortnight. Out of this sum we have already forwarded £600 by cable to the High Commissioner in London. A resolution, which was passed last week at a meeting of representatives of patriotio societies, affirming that these societies should make a liberal monthly appropriation to meet the cost of supplying comforts to sick and wounded soldiers, has now placed the whole matter on a more satisfactory footing. In view of thia decision it see ma to us to be unnecessary to ask for any additional contributions to our fund. We have received the following subscriptions:— Previously acknowledged £643 < 6 Kaitangata Patriotic Committee ... 50 , 0 0 Mrs Butterworth ... ... 10 0 0 "J. L. S., M. M. 8., and J. D-," Maori Hill 0 7 6 "A. D." 0 ? 0 Total — £703 17 0 THE WOUNDED SOLDIERS IN ENGLAND FUND. TO THE EDITOB. Sib,—Whilst fully appreciating your effort to raise money for the above tund, it appears to me tftat the necessity for doing so would not exist if our patriotic society did its duty. Our local society, in common with those in other centres, holds many thousands of pounds for tho relief of our wounded heroes, arid surely the fact that some of them are at present domiciled in other lands should not debar them from benefiting by these funds. Hundreds of these men may be unable to returns for a very long time, and is it fair to expect that they should be dependent on strangers and on funds raised in such manner as you are endeavouring so successfully to raise when the means already exists for their relief? Hoping that our local society will wake lip to its responsibility in this matter and at once remit money for the immediate needs of these brave men who are so far from home and loved ones, —I am, otc.. Subscriber. November 17. fWo refer our correspondent to the statement published above.—Ed. O.D.T.]