THE BLINDED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18746, 27 December 1922, Page 7

THE BLINDED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —The raising of funds for charitable • purposes is suck a strenuous and difficult business nowadays that wo are most anxious to explore every avenue which may help forward St. Dunstan’a work without setting too groat a tax, in these lean days, upon tho purses of an ever-generous public. -Th»> means of doing this provided by the issuo of :St. Dunstan's cigarettes has received! universal welcome by press, trade, eni| public alike, and the proceeds from ' the sales of these cigarettes are supplying a: greatly needed accession to the funds for the continuance of St. Dunstan’s work for out war-blinded men. ■■■'; You will be aware that practically all fher New Zealand soldiers who were blinded -in’ the war have been trained at St. Dunstan’s,; and still form' part of its great family of nearly 2000 sens. \Te have received so many requests fponv New Zealand that St. Dunstan’s cigarettes; should be made available for sale there that: we linvo now made arrangements for their effective distribution, and for a generous portion of the profits to be devoted to thfl work for New Zealand war-blinded men. which is under the able guidance of, M? Cl nth a Mackenzie. ' The cigarettes are being ms.de ana' marketed for ns by the very well-known’firm'' of Carreras' (Limited), and they; and we havpspared no pains to nroduce a cigarette whiph : will commend itself to tho vast army '■ of: cigarette smokers. ■ St. Dunstan’s link with New* Zealand hailalways been so close that I ain sure I may,count upon your kindly help in making this means of raising funds for our work as, great a success in New Zealand as it has been at. Homo.—l am, etc., lan Fraser, Captain, Chairmaii;. Headquarters of St. Dunstan's Work, London, N.W. ,