CONVALESCENT HOME FOR SOLDIERS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14871, 20 September 1918, Page 2

CONVALESCENT HOME FOR SOLDIERS.

(United Fit Ess Association.)

''.",.■'■ Tiniaru, September 19. . Ax tor negotiating for some time with the owners, the Defence Department has decided to commandeer for a convalescent home foi; soldiers -the-build-ing-.-■recently erected for an Anglican Boys' Orphanage a couple- of miles' from limaru at a cost of about £15,000 Hie orphanage has been occupied a week by boys who were previously in a hired building The Government will pay £800 a year, bxit this is inadequate and the Red Cross and the War Relief will add a joint donation of £200 a year.