SOCKS FOR SOLDIERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14330, 21 June 1917, Page 8

SOCKS FOR SOLDIERS.

Every map returned' from the front who has been '•interviewed by the* Auckland Women's Patriotic league coil- , tends that tliere eamiot be ,too- .many sodks forwarded to .the - boys at the* front v "Now ' is. thei 5 time' iio knit .socks, ': for' When they, arrive m the trenches,; it will be winter, aiid the warm woollen, goods will be much needed. Some people" have raised the question of the need for sending so many socks, but a letter . from a soldier to his sister, printed ,m a Sydney paper throws an interesting light on this subject. He says :.* 'Never, was. a parcel' of, socks so happily ; timed. Had there been 33 pairs • I couid # have i found., use for. them ail. Tljat night our fellows, commenced .to , dribble, m ;from the. trenches iri twos'' and threes... They, .WeVe iii a'J.dreadful i plight, and,, your t hearty woujd have ached had you seeri jiljem. Their 1 suffering was j awful— trench feet. We got them m a; dry room, with a: fire' going,;- and new ■'. socks from the store, making them com- ! fortatde for the night. -, ' After ' tliat t others -kept coming im-\ Their -. plight ' wa.3 pitiable. Our, regulation supply of j socks soon ran out, , anij Jiere is where yours came m. If yoii could have seen the grateful look, and heard the 'Thank's, cobber,' I got when T handed ever ttye . socks,, you would hayej felt rewarded "for all the .time and patience spent on tlio I knitting." ; . ... V /'; ' '