PATRIOTIC WORK.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1916, Page 7

PATRIOTIC WORK.

GIFT PARCELS DESPATCHED. Seventeen oases of gift parcels and five boxes of butter have been dej spatched by the Women's Patriotic e League and the .Victoria. League to „ Taranaki men at the front. The gift » parcels, containing hospital comforts, .. were sunt to the No. 1 Stationary flosa pital in Egypt. * TARANAKI GIFTS APPRECIATED. e ' That gifts sent by the Women's. Pa- ? triotic League to the Taranaki'men at y the front are appreciated is shown in 1 .a letter received by Mrs. Burgess from s the late Sergeant Greatbach, who was 1 recently killed. Sergeant Greatbaoh, - writing on behalf of himself and the c Taranaki men who were with him, said 1 a parcel of gifts were received while ? they were billeted just beyond the fir- - ing line. Xotliing could have been more * welcome, Sergeant Greatbach wrote, i than the Taranaki butter and jam. The - men greatly appreciated these food- ' stuffs. f FURTHER APPRECIATION. A further acknowledgment of comforts despatched' by the New Plymouth Women's Patriotic Committee to the 1 men at the front is contained in the following letter received yesterday by ' Mrs. 0. H. Burgess from- Lieutenant Neville H. Arden, of New Plymouth:— * "Very many thanks for a box full of ' most excellent parcels, which were distributed oh September 2 to the Lewis gun section of Ist Battalion N.J5.R.8 these parcels readied us through Cha.p----n lain-Captain Houchen. It was rather appropriate that we should have received your box, as the Lewis gun see- i tion is composed mostly of Taranaki ■ lj men. ' The parcels were given lis just before we marched out on a. long trek r towards the firing line. All along the, ~ route you, could see the men opening their packages. They are greatly appre- , ciated, and perhaps most of all the , address of people who send them. . . i [1 This is a beautiful country. Xp wonder ' " the French love it. Sorry cannot write (i more now. We are preparing to move ' y again. I saw Sidney (Burgess) two ■e days ago: he looked fit and well, and e 'Friday' Easter. ... Again thank. >r ing you. and wisliing you every good n luck with all your war work." The h letter was dated September 0. " CHILDREN'S CONTRIBUTIONS. lt: The children of Now Plymouth are 1_ doing good work towards heiping to le provide means of recreation to Now c " Zealand men who are con-fined in the military 'hospitals suffering from ' . wounds received in the war. The secie retary of the Victoria League, West- ?" minster, in a letter to Mrs. Firth, Devon K Street West, acknowledged the receipt j of Ss fid from the junior associates of ' the League attending the Central ''• School, The secretary said the money s > had been devoted to the purchase of r " jig-saw puzzles, and these had been sent "" to the Xo. 2 Xew Zealand General Hos- ?'' pital at Waltoii-on-TliameS'. The men ,s greatly appreciated the. gifts, and were ■*■ engaged in putting the puzzles together " directly' they arrived, n ;o A GRAMAPHONE RECEIVED. '" An acknowledgment of the receipt of 10 a gramaphone and a box of cake, signed '' by the members of S Company, 17th c Reinforcements, which is composed al- '" most entirely of Taranaki men, has '' been received by Mrs. Burgess, on be'half of the Women's Patriotic League. THE WOMEN'S DEVOTION. i Despite the inclement weather, the „ members of the New Plymouth Women's ', Patriotic League are showing commend- , able devotion to the cause they have . espoused, and nil day yesterday many '. of them were at the League's rooms, ' sewing and preparing parcels of com!j forts for the men at the front.