NIELANESIAN TUCK BOXES

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1338, 16 January 1912, Page 4

NIELANESIAN TUCK BOXES

'To tho Editor.) Sir,—Will you again kindly allow mo to remind your readers that how is tho time that I am raising the fund for (ho luck boxc.«. Wellington needs no teaching as to thie scheme, or what (he?o boxes, annually s-ent out, contain; and Wellington friends,of the mission will be glad to k-arn that never has more gratitude l>oou exmv.-sed than last year. Archdeacon UtHwatt right up in the British Solomons, ssiys that the tins of seeded raisins and tins of compressed chocolate ore invaluable for night journeys, of which he has many, and (hat the bandages are a Godsend, as they were very short uf them on the "Selwyn." The Molcndn, the quinine wine, prodigotcil beef, and compressed chocolate are specially valuable when men are recovering from fever and ague. T hope hi p-ack some weeks earlier than lminl this yenr. and its orders depend on I'rienlls, 1 should be grateful for donations as soon as may be—it lakes some weeks to opt together all there is to send. Mks Mosteyer. of Sydney Street, my most kindly niid canable helper, will receive on my be.hnlf any donations not sent, direct to iiiyseli'. I have all confidence, in the AVelliiiiMnn public.-l am, etc., LUCY CALDKIJ, Wife of the Commissary-for Melanesia, All Saints' Viearnge. Auckland, January 12, 1812.