WORK AMONG SEAMEN.

White Ribbon, Volume 26, Issue 312, 18 June 1921, Page 3

WORK AMONG SEAMEN.

The following is only one among the many letters of appreciation received by our Timaru I'nion from the sailors who are made so welcome at the Seamen’s Rest in Timaru: No. 1, Mess, H.M.S. Chatham. Dunedin. Dear Mr and Mrs Woodward, — 1 am writing to thank you and the other ladies for giving ine and a few more of our lads two very lovely evenings when our watch was ashore. I ran tell you. *if there were a little “home" like yours in every port we called at there would be thousands of better men in our Navy to-day, but a sailor comes out to a strange place, and the only welcome is the public-house (which is always ready to have you), and of course he only just steps in for the night. Rut your “home,” one gets in and stops all night, for he is made so welcome and simply happy, tha* he does not like to leave, and when he does he takes away happy thoughts of the time he has had, and goes aboard with a clear head and a decent mind. 1 hope you will not think me an angel, for I am not. and have no wish to be one; but 1 am trying to tell you of some of our plights, and of the good you and your Society have done; and 1 am also trying to show how grateful I am for the kindness you showed us boys. Now\ good bye. Thanking you and the other ladies for our happy times and thoughts of Timaru and its Comfortable little “home.” —I am, your most grateful friend, A.G.