XMAS GIFT FOR OUR MEN. AT SEA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2876, 14 September 1916, Page 5

XMAS GIFT FOR OUR MEN. AT SEA

LORUXIVEBTOOL'S SUGGESTION. His Excellency the Governor has forwarded the following for publication :-? "There are some 1100. officers and men of the mercantile marine who aro cm-, ployed in tho transports and hospital ships which convey our Now Zealand soldiers from and to.pur shores, and it has struok me that, while we are making arrangements to send some gift of remembrance to our. men at Christmas, wo ought to bear these t sailors in our thoughts. "There is no need on. my part to state how arduous are tho duties imposed on them,- and whilo not desiring to make a general appeal, I. make this suggestion: That, if anyone wou'd like somo gift sent to these men at Christmas, they should send me half a crown for this purpose, between this date and September 30, and I will send a personal acknowledgment, of all such contributions. ~, ■ "It is obviously more convenient to send money rather than gifts in kind, principally because, as everyone knows, the ships aro scattered over a very wide area, and I propose; to divide the money thus collected among all tho ships in proportion totho numbers of tho crew, sending it. to tho master to apportion in such a way that the men will all get some recognition from tho Dominion. I "(Signed) LIVERPOOL."