A WHITE RIBBONER'S FAREWELL.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 245, 18 November 1915, Page 9

A WHITE RIBBONER'S FAREWELL.

Dear Comrades, — It is impossible for me to write you individually, so 1 have asked permission to bid you all “Au Revoir through the pages of the “White Ribbon.” I expect to leave New Zealand bv the s.s. Remuera on the 30th, and have volunteered for service at Home recruiting. 1 return to tell the members at Home that 1 have proved to the fullest extent the loving link of membership, and all our badge stands for. I came to your shores a stranger, but a fellow-comrade. 1 leave it carrying with me precious memories of united service and love. I have visited nearly every Union in the North Island, and several in the South, and new members have been gained. 1 have never been permitted to become home-sick, because I have been “mothered” everywhere. Links h.ive been forged that can never be broken, and 1 shall often think of you and pray for you also. W ill you pray that Miss Allman, of Palmerston North, who has also volunteered for service, and 1 may be spared to reach home in safetv. I have one request; if any member has any loose pictures, <uttings from Auckland or other papers, giving photographs of N.Z. soldier boys in training, or route marching, etc., will you send them to me, care Rev. J. Dawson. lam getting slides made of as many interesting phases of our boys here, to show at Home what the N.Z. troops are like, that will assist in the recruiting. I hope also to visit some of the hospitals, and may see some “mother’s” boy whom 1 have met here. f arewell, Comrades, 1 take with me, and leave with you, Mrs Don’s message, “Bring the women up to the colours.” May they be there in 1917. —Your loving comrade, EMILY M. BISSON.