NOT PLAYING FOR SYMPATHY?

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 30, 2 June 1923, Page 3

NOT PLAYING FOR SYMPATHY?

To Mr J. W. McMillan, Chainnan. Stratford Memorial Committee. Dear Sir, — In answer to your letter to mo in last evening’s “Stratford Evening Post,” I have my views jnd you have yours ro the Memorial, You seem to take mjv letter up in a had way, sir. You have a small Memorial in Stratford at present. What I meant in my letter. Sir, is ; Why. not help the surviving instead of spending hundreds of pounds in a Memorial ? My meaning is this : one put up at £3OO would he just as much thought of as one costing hundreds of pounds. 1 might not he as well educated as ■ome of you big men are, but I shall fight it tout with any of you. Now, Sir, when I arrived back here some three months ago after being in Hospital for six months and was badly in need of help and 1 went to the Stratford Patriotic Society 1 was told there were no funds left, as the Government had taken the funds over. I not only went once but often. I certainly did get some help from the Stratford War Relief Association when I first came back and won’t deny it, Sir. But now we are not wanted, and I am still in need of help, and I shall be pleased if you can do anything for me and don’t care how small it is. I am not afraid of my name being put before the •public I am, etc., IV P. STAVELEY. Climie, Road, Ngaere,