SOLDIERS’ COUPONS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145902, 8 August 1917, Page 7

SOLDIERS’ COUPONS.

A HANDY FORM OF GIFT. NEW Y.M.C.A. ENTERPRISE. A new scheme for reaching our-sol-diers on active service- with gifts from their friends and relatives has just been set on foot by the Y.M.C.A., with every prospect of meeting a widely-felt need. Acting promptly on tho suggestion of a soldier it lias completed arrangements for the issue of threepenny coupons in neat little booklets of ten and twenty that can be conveniently enclosed in a letter. These coupons are redeemable in goods at any of the Y.M.C.A. canteens, which are to be found practically wherever tho men are, An initial order for 100,000, of these booklets, some at half-a-cr-own, and some at five shillings, is already in tho printers’ hands in Wellington. The obvious advantage of these coupons is that they provide a specially convenient and attractively simple means of sending money to the front, where they can be readily turned into eatables, or jsomo other requirement of the moment, procurable at tho YUM.C.A. huts. The scheme has the approval of the Government and the postal authorities have consented to handle the coupons find see to their distribution without fee or reduction of any sort. Tho Wellington district is to be first supplied, and within a few days the booklets will be procurable at any of the 800 Money-Order Offices throughout the Dominion. It is anticipated that as soon as the simplicity and economy of tho system becomes known to the public it will bo very widely availed of.