"TAG DAY."

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 871, 24 November 1916, Page 8

"TAG DAY."

AN APPEAL FOR TOBACCO. To-day the Lady Liverpool Committee are making a special effort in the direction of providing "smokes" for New Zealand soldiers on active service. A street collection is being taken up and a satisfactory response is being recorded, although it has been found that most people prefer to give money, instead of gifts in kind. However, it will all work out in the same way, for all moneys subscribed will be spent locally. As a result of this effort the Lady Liverpool workers hope to be able to include tobacco and cigarettes in each of the 6000 parcels which they send away every month. Bins have also been placed about the town, at street corners and similar conspicuous positions, in which the public is invited to place contributions of cigarettes or tobacco. The committee, which is headed by Mrs H. R. Smith, hope that a good quantity of both will be received in this way, and consider that it is "up to" the stay-at-homes to contribute in this way to the comfort of their brothers in the trenches. In many of the tobacconists' shops boxes for contributions are provided, and the money found in each will be subsequently spent in the shop where it was displayed. A large number of ladies are giving willing service in the effort, and several gentlemen are also engaged at the Chamber of Commerce (the headquarters of the committee) in receiving and counting the returns, and so forth. It may be mentioned that soldiers abroad seem to much prefer the cigarettes and tobacco sent from New Zealand to any that they may receive from English organisations, which ileal with colonial "smoke" money. That is one of the reasons for which "Fag Day" was instituted, another being a desire to spend money locallv whenever possible.