HELP OUR SAILORS WHO GUARD OUR DESTINY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 3 November 1915, Page 6

HELP OUR SAILORS WHO GUARD OUR DESTINY.

(To the Editor.) K r.— Tin' annual of !,:ho Navy which has always lrv.i Ik Id on Trafalgar Day, was this year postponed l ( ) a. datv yet to lip fixed in order v.; make way for the \{.\\- (".'■ os'S movoiiieiv- on thai day. Ceh bralions on the iincs sii^jiiMed for the inn.'tiiiy; hero were hold in almost ovcry part of tho Kmp 10 (the representatives of our Allies Most- cordially co-opera ti mi) ; I lie mi ;'tin<i> 'calviim the form oi a most ■hearty l'ecofriiition of all we owe to the sailors of eiv own mid Allied Fleets. One i|iil'ori,im.-ii;. re-oil: of ihe postponement was *h:i( (lie collection arranu'.d io -he to1;r:i up for the ".Sailors' (y,n)iV."|s Fund'' lapsed for wa.nt of the r;;; lilt im iLy : ho': we strouirly feel that such an ohje-l: .should i :;'.'• t he allowed to tro withonV any attempt to do .something worthy. "| W'rl linut'n i" reee'iniYon of Sailors of the fleet. We therefore invite ew.i-v citizen of the Wellington I'rnv.noial D'strict f\o send to us such contributions as Hiey feel .'d)!o tr) make. Tile v.h01,-, matter will T-.« closed, bofoiv the 'Frisco mail leaves on the Hili November, and the sum available remitted to London before Christinas. It seems quko superfluous to enlarge upon i,ho hardships oui 1 sailors have, to bear t. winter .storms in the- Nivth Sea and at Galli.poli,, or the danpvry of tl.v swbmaruv and i)iiiie-.s>\voepiiiy: operations, T:hc apnea 1 needs ri'.-s empliasisinji-. a.ud as members of th<' ■ Navy Lea cue, we will l>„ re:spons'b!.e for the funds subscribed roachine; the men I:, r whom they are jiiven. Subscript'ons may be si-nt to the .Secrets: ry, f r to iinv iiieniher of the Xavy League CJon;:;iittee. (Sieved) .J. Ji. HA.RI'OFHT. Cltiiii'innii Local Oornin'tteo. CECIL W. IWUUEK, Hon. Socivtiuy, Branch of the Xavy League. ]'.(). Box Cd'>. Wellimvtou. Nov. Ist, liilo.