Military Affairs Committee.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 13, 1 July 1918, Page 98

Military Affairs Committee.

, .We are pleased ..to announce .that Canon T; Feilden Taylor, C.F. ., has; at the earnest request of the Military Authorities and of this:Committee>vdeeided to remain as Senior Chaplain at the Trentham. Camp. The good: work he is doing' amongst the troops is too well known to need comment. At present he is being -assisted by the Rev. V. T. Gilfillian, of. Auckland. The date fixed for the opening' of the new Institute at Rotorua is; July 17th. By that date we hope to have it completed m every detail, .ready for the use. and benefit of the wounded soldiers undergoing treatment at the Sanatorium. The Military Affairs Committee have cabled home the sum of £3000. Of this amount £2000 is for the Church Army Hut Fund, and £1000, the gift of an anonymous donor,- is to provide a kitchen car for .use m supplying hot drinks and food to the men m. the trenches. Since the beginning* of the, year the Committee have remitted : Home the sum of £5464 for the building of huts, and for comforts for the men at. the front. The secretary of the Military Affairs Committee acknowledges receipt of the following donations to June 17th, 1918:— £:, s, d. Per Rev. F. W. Whibley 2400 0 0 Parish of Puketapu .. 10 0 0 E.R.G., Havelock iNorth 210 0 £2412 10 0