SOLDIERS' ROOM

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2744, 12 April 1916, Page 6

SOLDIERS' ROOM

THE CALL FOB ASSISTANCE.

Prompt response to the call for funds has been made by a number of sympathisers with that admirable institution, the Soldiers' Room, Sydney Street. Particulars of the Soldiers' Room and the entertainment and recreation provided there for our troops when thsy tcomo to the City were published recently in The Dominion, and at the same time an appear was made for additional funds. The Soldiors' Room grows in popularity; thousands of troopers enjoy them-' 1 selves there each week, and the cost of the upkeep grows with the added numbers who are made the' welcome guests of the ladies who founded the big Club Room. The institution thoroughly deserves all the assistance that can be given it for the whole of the contributions are expended for the benefit of the men, who are given the advantages of a olub room' and wholesome recreation. Mrs, E. L'E. Barton, secretary of the Hawera Mayoress's Emergency Committee, writing under date April 7 to the treasurer of the Soldiers' Room, Mrs. H. Hall, Hill Street, accompanies a further" donation from her committee, with this comment: "We are always so. grateful to the Wellington Committee for their kind hospitality to our men in camp at Trcntham." The writer expresses very well the views of those in other parts who are acquainted with what the Soldiers' Room means to the men in the camps who are without friends in Wellington. The president and committee of the Soldiers' Room desire to acknowledge with thanks the following donations:— ■Mr. A. E. Mabin, £10; Mr. G. E. Tolhurst, £10; Mr. Joseph Josoph, £10; Mrs. Coleman (Napier), £5 lis.; Mrs. David Stewart, £5; "G.G.8.," £5; Mr. M. Myers, £5; Mrs. Coulls, £0: Mrs. J. Duncan, £5; .Mrs.' It. S. Williams, Tuparoa, East Const, £5; Miss Kitty Williams, :£2 (quarterly subscription); New Plymouth Patriotic Society, £5; Hawera Mayoress's Emergency Committee, £5 (also 1 books to Mrs. Massey for troops); Mrs. Gorton (Bulls), £3; Mr. W. E. Atkinson (Wangauui), £2 25.; Mr. George W. Rogors (Opimake), £2 25.; Miss Duhr .(Dunedin), £2; "Anonymous" (per Miss Marchant), £1 10s. 6d.; Mrs. Eichelbaum, £1 10s.; "A Mother" (Napier), £1; Mrs. Dean, 10s. 6d.; per soldiers' contribution box, £7 os. Bd. Total, £91 os. 2d.