ANZAC CLUB IN CANADA

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4562, 20 April 1942, Page 5

ANZAC CLUB IN CANADA

Sir, —I should like a few lines of your valuable space to tell the people, of New Zealand what has happened to some of the money they have so generously donated to- the National Patriotic Fund. I am speaking of the Anzac Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a home away from home, for it has all the material comfort a modern home can offer. A billiard table, table tennis, piano, a radio-gramophone, writing room, a first-class canteen, and, best of all, a marvellous lounge equipped with .beautiful leather upholstered settees

and chairs, magazines, New Zealand papers, books, etc. If the comments that are made, when we lads first arrived at the Anzac Club, could be heard by you people back home, I am more than sure you would feel amply rewarded for the donations you have given to the Pat riotic Fund. We all agree that the credit is largely due to the manager, Mr Keith Gresham, of Christchurch. He has made it a home for us—and though we are here for but a few days we regard this Anzac Club as “ home.”

This is only one of many such clubs throughout the world—each one a haven of rest, a place to go on an evening off duty. So, dear people of New Zealand, you have the heartfelt thanks of thousands of young New Zealanders for this and many other clubs.—l am, etc., v L. GRIFFIN (Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R.) of Marton. Canada, March, 1942.