SOLDIERS' HOME PROPOSED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2801, 20 June 1916, Page 6

SOLDIERS' HOME PROPOSED

IN MEMORY OF EARL KITCHENER. Mr. F. Norris, of Masterton, representing the National.Service League (of which Sir Robert Stout is president), was in town yesterday, and lel't for the southlast evening. One field of activity of the league ■' is among the children of the Dominion, whom the league thinks should be taught, as far as possible, the significance of the present war. The Education Boards are helping in the .matter by allowing Mr. Norris .to explain to the children of the higher standards, the love and duty, they owe to the men who go out from New Zealand to'fight for them all; to teach them to respect, in tho years to be, the maimed and crippled men who have become so in tho performance of their duty to the Empire) and to always remember that Germany was aided in her war preparations by the goods we bought from her in our blindness before the war. The league is also warmly advocating that a soldiers' homo should be erected in New • Zealand, to the.memory of the late Earl Kitchener, for the accommodation of New Zealand soldiers too. badly wounded to resume any kind of work, and yet likely to live for many years. The league feels that some suoh ■ home will be ..necessary 6ooner or later, and they hold that it would perpetuate the memory of Kitchener, as he would have it perpetuated—by caring for tho men who fell, but did not die, for the Empire. ' / Mr. Norris is to- speak to the school, children of' Wellington on his return from the south; ' -.