THE WAR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17322, 23 May 1918, Page 6

THE WAR.

SALVATION ARMY WAR FUND APPEAL. THE OTAGO DAILY TIMES LIST. Previously acknowledged ... ... £398 18 1 Clinton Patriotic Committee ... 33 18 2 Total £432 16 3 Wo have received from the Clinton Patriotic Committee (per Mr J. G. Clifford, hon. treasurer) a contribution of £31 19s 2d to the Church Army Fund. MEDICAL CERTIFICATES. (Peb United Press Association. I WELLINGTON, May 22. Medical certificates furnished by men who aro called up for examination under the Military Service Act for the information of the Medical Board cease to be the property of the reservists concerned when once they are handed over, and are not therefore returned to them after the examination. The military authorities take the stand that the information contained in the medical certificates is often of a highly confidential nature, and in order to safeguard the interests of the man examined the medical boards have considered it advisable to destroy the certificates immediately after perusal by the examining doctors. "If the reservist desires to retain the certificate he has to ask his medical adviser to furnish a certificate _ in duplicate—one copy being for the Medical Board .and one for himself. TAIERI WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION. The usual amount of work was handed out and made-up garments received at the meeting of the Taieri Women's Patriotic Association on Tuesday. A deputation from the Taieri Bowling Club-handed over a cheque for £120, the result of the club's share in the recent bowlers' effort for patriotic purposes. The spokesman specially thanked the ladies for the manner in which they had toiled in the interests of the bowlers' eilort. HELPING SOLDIERS' CHILDREN. Tho many needs of the soldiers on active service are apt to make people forget the urgent necessities of wives and children of the fighting men. This aspect of the war has received special attention from tho Church Army. Recreation rooms for soldiers' wives and widows have been opened in many parishes; the Army also helps many poor women who have been summoned to France to see badly-wounded relatives. The Army's Holiday Home at Godstono has been set.aside for tho motherless children of soldiers. It is already full and an additional home is being sought' I where more children can be sheltered unt'l | tho war ends or they are old enough to j earn their own living. The Church Army indeed, is foetcr-motner to a jreat family of children numbering some thousands" This is only one of the countless activities of the Church Army s war work in England, in the Roya.l Navy, on every battle front, in tho Now Zealand training" camps and on our troopships and hop.iital shin*' \°^ C A^ rC - h Arm /I '\ ppcal for mo ™ —£50.000 is needed—deserves a hearty response from patriotic New Z-alander's a? the money is to bo applied to helping "our boys in camp or wherever they may be I sent on active service. '