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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14245, 13 March 1917, Page 9

"Soldiers 'who coiile back say tha't they don't get the benefit of. trench comforts, that they have to pay for the gifts they "have, ' said Mr. Smneton (war Work special bopimissioner to tlie National Committee of New Zealand Y.M.C.A.), in the course of a lecture . at Wellington. "But they are confusing trench comforts with the canteens. Wc run no canteens of our own at the front, but we run them for the British Y.M.C.A. and are controlled by the list of charges authorised by the British War Office. It is at those canteens that the soldiers have to pay for their food, etc., ' but the things that are described as 'trench comforts' are what we give to our soldiers iu what we call the forward points (five place* within a thousand yards of tlie -front line) where we dispense "these comf oils, and. nothing what ever is charged. Hot cocoa, hot soup, hot malted milk, free biscuits, free cigarettes — everything free — are* supplied to the men there. *