The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1916. OUR WOUNDED SOLDIERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 29 December 1916, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1916. OUR WOUNDED SOLDIERS.

(With which is incorporated The Taihape Post and Waimarino News).

The good work of raising money for Red Cross purposes in Taihape still enthusiastically proceeds. The fearful conflicts yet to ccme in Europe will produce the neejj for all that Red Cross workers and soldiers' comfort collectors can get together, even were they to achieve a success fringing on the miraculous. Without any shadow of egotism, but in bare pure justice to the people of the Taihape district, Ave may be excused for saying that it is very questionable whether any other similarly placed locality has made such voluntary sacrifices for men who •have gone to the front. There may be, and there undoubtedly are, individuals i n various parts of our Dominion who stand head and shoulders above most men in our territory as voluntary contributors to this noble cause, but in this even, we have one who is in the very forefront amongst the consistent voluntary givers o n the largest scale. Working men are throwing in the nimble shilling in hundreds of thousands; nothing is spurned however small the gift, and our indefatigable workers are now collecting up the stray pennies in what they term a "Rosebud Competition," while the shil lings and pounds from an exceedingly generous yeomanry and workers in the country generally are tumbling in to the fund of the Farmers' Red Cross Sheep Art Union. It seems as though our people have an inexhaustible store of novel and attractive schemes for helping our wounded and suffering sons at the front. Inventive intelligence is unearthing new schemes for keeping the much-needed voluntary giving towards alleviating the sufferings cf our soldiers, a pleasure that shows signs even of developing j »to a popular pastime with many. What could be devised that is prettier or more admirable as a means of collecting in the stray pennies than the Rosebud Competition? In this Ave ■>ave a bevy of pretty, amiable juvenile lasses, nominated by their fellows,

one of whom is to be elected queen bypopular choice. Each vote recorded will cost the voter a penny, for which a ticket is issued. This choice of a Rosebud Queen is sure to become increasingly popular among the children, and their enthusiasm will undoubtedly spread to their parents and friends, until the whole community will find itself interested in this pretty little scheme for collecting pennies to provide comforts and alleviate suffering amongst our wounded soldiers. It would indeed be difficult to discover a more pleasing scheme for the purpose for which it has been evolved, and it will not be surprising to find that when the day of crowning the Queen of the Rosebuds arrives, there will be a n accumulation of pennies not far short of the century in pounds, if not considerably over.