FROM SALISBURY PLAINS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 213, 28 May 1918, Page 3

FROM SALISBURY PLAINS

APPRECIATION OF THE ANZAC BUFFET.

A 6 there has lieon some interesting correspondence- 0:1 the subject of Miss Ada Iteeye auu the Anzac Buffet in London during the past week, it will be news to many to know, that nearly every mail brings lattws to Miss .Reeve from soldiers in Kngknd and. France appreciative of her efforts in connection with the Anzac Buffet. Hero is one' Miss Kwye received .yesterday from Salisbury Plains :—

Dear Miss Eeeve—Just a smile and greeting do I send you from these old Haine of Salisbury, hoping in Australia that all tilings go right well with you. . . . i r c-», it's fiorta usual :o talk 'food these dsyf. tuitions in camps like this are far from filling. Good job a fellow can manage to have a few bob in his pocket, or supporless to bed would oft we go. Telling you of the extra short rations of soldiers nowadays shows how much more appreciated your grand effort on behalf of the Buffet would naturally be. Yes, really, it is great lo think the Buffet can carry on through a little lady who showed the hope there was for this almost closing good haven to keep its evoi'-wukame doors right open by her excellent way of passing on to the people whoso duty it was really not to forget the wants of the boys on this sido. I had a few days in London, and my first call was tho Anzac Buffet. Yes, there it hangs on the wall—the enlargement which I so much wanted to seo there— and suitably inscribed. Just a few words telling what this same litlo lady has done for the boys. . ■. . Most of the same people are connected—Percy Evans, all the good ladies—it was goo<J to connect with a link that could talk directly of what had been done by ihis same Anzac Ada. They wero all delighted with what I could tell them. Say, 'tis a subject on which I can warm up some. They told me they hardly knew how to meet' next week's bills when your first <£5000 came along, showing just how low down funds were. . . . They are now serving cold meat luncheons, vegetables, pickles, etc. My eye, it's good to see such prosperity in' the little great old place. The pity is that the finances are so good, for the strict rationing will make it hard for them to give quite all they would like. It appears rations are evon stricter than when I was in London. Well, to yau ill all truth and sincerity do 1 send mv kindest thoughts, best wishes that all may go well with you for many long, long years to come,—Verily yours, (Sgd.) Burt Burke."