A HANDY GIFT FOR SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3154, 4 August 1917, Page 8

A HANDY GIFT FOR SOLDIERS

NEW Y.M.C.A. ENTERPRISE. A new scheme for Teaching our soldiers on'active service with gifts from their ■friends and has just been set on foot by tho Y.M.C.A., with every prospect of meeting a widely-felt need. Acting promptly on. the suggestion of a soldier it has completed arrangements for the. issue of threepenny coupons in neat little booklets of ten and twenty that can be conveniently enclosed in a letter. .These coupons are redeemable in goods at any of 'the Y.M.C.A. canteens, which 'are to be found practically wherever the men are. An initial order for 100,000 of these booklets, somo at )wl*a-crflwn and some at ten shillings, ie already in the printers' hands in •'Wellington. Tho obvious advantage of these coupons is that they provide a specially convenient and attractively simple means, of sending email sums of money to the front, it here they can be readily turned into eatables or some other requirement of the moment procurable at the Y.M.C.A.. huts. The echome has tho approval of tho Government,' and tho Postal- authorities have consented to handle the coupons and see to 'their distribution without feo or reduction of any sort. The Wellington district is to be first supplied, and •within a few days the booklets • will be procurable at any of the 800 Money Older Offices throughout 'the Dominion! It is anticipated that as soon as the simplicity and economy of tho system becomes known to the. public it will be very widely availed of.