LADY LIVERPOOL FUND.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14150, 29 July 1916, Page 2

LADY LIVERPOOL FUND.

. The Lady Liverpool Committee, Nelson, ha.ye. received a request to assist in providing leather waistcoats for the Sixteenth and Seventeenth. Reinforcements... The Nelson quota will cost £120: Subscriptions for this- purpose mayrbe left with Mrs CW. Lock, Mrs Crawford, or Mrs Pogsdn. The letter conveying the request states:—'"The" Canterbury branch of the Lady -Liverpool Fund having-decided'to p/bvidp ai leather waistcoat to each member of the Six-teentlv and Seventeenth Reinforcements from the Canterbury military district, to be given/before the troop's leave New-,Zealand, so. as to be of. use during the voyage, or_.wh'erevor the soldier may be billeted, br'fi^hting in tlie whiter,, we. write asking the usual generous support of your committee in this matter. ■ As'leather has advanced ii; price very considerably, the cost of each vest* wall now be 7s 6d. It is'understood there are sufficient waistcoats already in England for the men now in the trenches, but we feel sure that the two. Reinforcements-reaching Englahi during the.winter will feel the comfort of having.one in their kits when thcs' arrive aty-their -destination. As the first quota must bo despatched in about threeVweeks'/time, we ask for :i prompt respons§|*j|!,;.,'-;. y\ : ■ '.

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