TOURIST AND TRAVEL,

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1423, 2 August 1917, Page 36

TOURIST AND TRAVEL,

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H. G. Wells’ latest work entitled “What is Coming?” is being widelydiscussed by British newspapers owing to its dealing so intimately with the state of polygamy which many writers hint will become the law of England and Germany after the war is over. * » * • A Wellington resident who has a brother a prisoner of war in Germany has been notified by letter of the very perfect organisation which exists at Home in respect to helping people to communicate with and send parcels to prisoners of war in Germany, Austria and Turkey. In order that no one shall be overlooked a committee has been set up in connection with every British regiment, and it is the duty of that committee to ascertain by the best possible means all about the condition of health, locality, means, etc., of every prisoner secured by the enemy; to keep lists of their names and dates of their capture; to report the same to their relatives; and to help the latter to assist the prisoner as far as it is possible. One great advantage of the scheme is that relatives in any part of the world may communicate with the Regimental Prisoners’ Committee, forwarding money to be spent as directed, and the committee will not only do that more economically and better than individuals, but will send a receipt for the money, with a complete list of the articles they have purchased with it. » * * =* That New Zealand folk can rest assured of the best treatment of our boys in the Homeland is aptly shown by the following extracts from the letter of a wounded Hokianga boy. He says: “A fellow cannot help but get well here —in fact, my leg is healing too quickly for my liking, and I suppose they will be shipping me across to a (convalescent home at Hornchurch or Oaklands. . . . We get the very best of everything here.. The sisters cannot do enough for us. Just fancy in sheets and pyjamas, and living on fish, chops, steak, eggs, stout, etc., after the way we have been ‘existing’ in France for the last few months. I am not in a hurry to get back again now that I am here. .Visiting parties from London and elsewhere come three times a week and give us concerts —very decent, too. Every day we have plenty of lady visitors, who bring us books, sweets, fruit and all sorts of luxuries. There is no mistake, New Zealand’s sick and wounded are well cared for while in hospital, and I consider a fellow that can get a wound like mine and get aross here with it is very, very fortunate. It is one of the joys and pleasures of soldiering.”