GIFT PARCELS FOR OUR BOYS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3156, 7 August 1917, Page 6

GIFT PARCELS FOR OUR BOYS

Sir,—A great amount .of time and!, money has been spent by many eu" Zealand Patriotic Societies in the preparation and dispatch of cases of gilts for our boys. While, of course, on« always appreciates the kindly spirit lrc which a gift is offered, the recipient: sometimes feels that his real necessities have unwittingly been overlooked, in this connection, may I be permitted to fiuotc an extract from a 6oldier s lettcn received by me? , "Wo have just handled o3 cases oL gifts for the brigade; they always come. ■ at moves, and I doubt if tIH-V are worth / all the trouble and expanse you peoplo put into them —not that dou't appreciate it all. You see, litre are so man? little shops here right U[i to the line,, and wo are ridiculously swJ! paid compared to the Tornmiw. I ti>!nV. it would, bo better instead of ill?.? 'handkerchief; parcels' to mnd K wl '■?* /;-atol butter, say. and tirnifl milk ifid such like, to lie distributed m «*>* rttwn*. We have been on margarins—swl enongm muff—for month* », ' ' :S^ r,ja J .5* started on the r.-.-r wrcer ljread-ite> rather good, w<; find- . _, , Would it be j/K¥m!e In give effect to this Biiege=tion. and j*r,d /owe of our plentiful Xew Zealand produce, such as, butter, milk, honey, -sic., to augment our boys' Army rations, especially at tliP Christmas geaion? Thp "maris ofi course, do not anply to small parcelsfcent by Wellington, August C, 1917.