NEW ZEALANDERS IN ENGLAND.
VISITING THE WOUNDED
There are never any New Zeaalnders in the United Kingdom who aro quite; without friends for long, lor the hospitality of the British people has never allowed our men to feel like strangers for long. Most of them are "adopted" in a more or less casual manner by visiting ladies who happen to meet them in the wards, and they rarely want seriously for any comforts. Jt is the business of the New Zealand War Contingent Association (our correspondent writes) to see that they don't, and that this chance of hospitality is made a certainty. The association has more than 160 visitors, who are mostly New Zealand ladies, and they call regularly at military hospitals throughout the British Isles wherever there are any New Zealand patients in tho wards. Where there arc, they are visited regularly, supplied with newspapers and "smokes," writing material, and any small comforts which they require, such as shaving kit, tooth brushes, _ coap, stationery, etc. In tho case of patients who are confined to bed they also get a regular supply of fruit, cream, etc. This attention continues until the men .are discharged well and fit. Any single month's report of the Visiting Committee of the War Contingent Association will show how widespread the work is. and what the organisation means. In August— before the capture of Tiers—there were 1933 New Zealnd wounded in the United Kingdom. Most of them were concentrated in tho New Zealand hospitals at Brockcnhtirst, Walton. Coo.ford, and Hornchurch. but the problem was the remaining 5°3. who were scattered over 110 British hospitals, as far apart at Dundee in the north and Netley in the south. Yet every ono of these, thsnks to the organisation of th" War Contingent Association, was retntlarlv visited, snpolied with necessary comforts, and reported to the head office. There, each ens" is recorded by card index, with every vMt and requisition, and the progres of the cure.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16873, 9 December 1916, Page 10
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327NEW ZEALANDERS IN ENGLAND. Otago Daily Times, Issue 16873, 9 December 1916, Page 10
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