SOLDIERS' COUPONS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17060, 13 August 1917, Page 6

SOLDIERS' COUPONS.

A HANDY FORM OF GIFT

' NEW V.M.C.A. ENTERPRISE

A new scheme for reaching our. soldiers on active service with gifts from their friends and relatives has just been set on foot by the V.M.C.A., with every prospect of meeting a widely felt need. Acting promptly: on the suggestion of a soldier, it has completed arrangements for the issue of threepenny, coupons in neat Httle booklets of ten and twenty that can be conveniently enclosed in a letter. These coupons are redeemable in goods at any V.M.C.A. canteens, which are to be found practically wherever the men are. An initial order .for.-one hundred thousand of these booklets, some at half a crown, and some at five shillings, is now in the printers' hands in Wellington. The obvious advantage of these coupons is that they provide a specially convenient and attractively simple means of sending small sums of money to the front, where they can be readily turned into eatables, or some other requirement of the moment, procurable at the Y.M.C.A. huts. ■ ' "

The scheme has the approval of the Government, and the Postal authorities have consented to handle the coupons and see to their distribution "without fee or reduction of any sort. The Wellington district is to be first supplied, and within a few days the' booklets "will, be procurable at any of the 800 MoneyOrder Offices throughout the Dominion. It is anticipated that as soon as the simplicity and economy of the system become known to the public it will be very widely availed of.