"Would-be Slacker (to recruiting sergeant) : "JBut s s5r < I have bad eyesight. and can't see any distance." " Don't worry ribout that, my man. Wo will put you in the very front trench, where you will hare a good near view." "Several months aeo it was computed that over a million pound? had bean collected by the theatrical and variety professions and given--or caused to t>e given—to war charities," says " T.P.'s Journal for Men and Women." " Only recently Mr Frank Allen (representing the Moss ErnpiKH and his brother variety handed over a cheque for £II,OOO gajtted by music hall artists alone, in aid of Sir Arthur Pearson's Fund for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors! Mr Oswald Stall's splendid War Seal Fund for providing home.? for disabled haroes already amounts to many thousands ot pounds."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11949, 7 March 1917, Page 4
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132Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Star (Christchurch), Issue 11949, 7 March 1917, Page 4
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