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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 144, 7 March 1918, Page 9

' I ; 1 \1 MmIV • ... 1 -1 \\ \ S *>1 Yes—and he knows that the next best thing- to home I m itself is the Y.M.C.A. hut, where he can get his cup of I hot coffee or tea; where he can write to the dear ones \\|\ who are ever present in his thoughts. Prom end to end of the long firing- line in France, "no mat- brave boys? It is nothing but a trifle! So we a6k with every ter where yon are billeted," writes one of the Expeditionary confidence for a rousing response to this appeal for funds— Force from the trenches, "there you will find the the urgently Thousands of cups of tea, coffee, also biscuits, nearest thing to home we boys have." • Another declares, "It is etc., are daily given free by the Y.M.C.A. Millions, of-sheets of j the last evidence of humanity as our boys go forward to their free letter paper and envelopes every month, hundreds of free maga- \ grim job iu the trenches—the last sign that anybody cares." , zines and newspapers turn your boys' thoughts homeward. What f , a glorious task it is! | Picture our men living under awful discomforts, far removed from the influences of home-and facing death. Where is the How- we wish you could read with us the fervent letters f man or woman iu this prosperous and protected land of homes who ' of appreciation from the soldiers themselves, from fathers', mothers, v.ij would deny each soldier a single comfort? While'you send your Ushers everywhere. You, too, can share in the work | soldier hero from time to time a few welcome remembrances, it is according to your means. Will you not take this appeal to heart "V • : •>. I • , the colossal task"of the Y.M.C.A. to perform this and a hundred and §' ive generously according to your means? . : other efforts of guidance, counsel,and comfort in every military It is for this purpose that the Wellington Citizens' Red Tri- ... camp at Home and abroad. The cost of this effort for your boys angle Day Committee has been organised in order to raise £25,000 r •'? is enormous, but what does it amount to in comparison with as Wellington's share of providing help, comforts t and succour for Hv 1 ; that which loving New Zealand hearts would like to do for our the lads of the N.Z. Expeditionary Forces. £100,000 is needed to ; "eappy on" fop a year I , <£ , ■ ' : The money MUST.be fount!. If the funds of the Y.M.C.A. suffer, out* soldiers will be the first to feel the loss. lUs little enough that they ask for—but they DO ask for the work of the Red Triangle to be kept up. Can you refuse them? Help the YJUCA. S® maintain this Service for tbe | - w loys S9 by 'giving generously for Red Triangle Day FRIDAY* MARCH 15th ; I ' 't. ' " ' , WfILINGTON CITIZENS RED TRIANGLE DAY COMHEL - j Every penny raised during this appeal will be used for the bene- i Harold Beaucbamp, Chairman. Captain D. A. Ewen, Treasurer. fit of our New Zealand Boys in Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, ■ □ BAKER'S BUILDINGS, WELLINGTON. 'England, and France. Cheques can be. made payable to Captain •' n # I have pleasure in enclosing £ « *•" D. A. Ewen, > Hon. Treasurer, Eed Triangle Day Office, Welling- j contribution towards Y.M.C.A. Service for Soldiers. f ton; or donations will be received at Citizens' Red Triangle.Day Name " Headquarters (next H. D. Bennett a.nd Co.), Willis Street, Wei- □ Address ■ lington. j . '

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