FOR SAILOR MEN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 216, 31 May 1918, Page 3

FOR SAILOR MEN

A PATRIOTIC FUND SCHEME.

A very valuable but useless waste nrouuct in fciie shape of einptv bottles is to be turned to useful and 'profitable account by a committee- of Indies of the .ftavy League Auxiliary. They hope to raise a considerable sum of money, and if. is to be spent for the benefit of tho men of His .Majesty's Navy and of the men in the merchant sen-ice. A meeting of ladies, convened by Mrs. W. D. Stewart, was held in the Navy League rooms yesterday to arrange a scheme for the collection of bottles—nil kinds of bottles, including thosn for medicine and scent—and also Nugget tins, with a view of raising funds for the benefit of the N'avy Lcnguo patriotic funds. All bottles offered may be left at the gymnasium n f the Sydney Street Schoolroom (Soldiers' Club), for ono month, co''imenc:n:f to-morrow. , The committee know how to mnlre money out of bottles which most people look upon as valueless. The 1 committee will apnea! for aid to the Women's National Reserve and the mothers of soldiers. A similar appeal in Christchurch resulted in a profit of -CICOfI. The followi'i? committee of Indies was formed:—Mesdnmes W. 1). Stnwnrf (chairwoman), Tlnll-Thomnson. Lever, D'O'ey, Gorton, llarliw. TTon D -Lew's, plii'inps'l'u'wr. ]w>itli Kirkealdie. G. F. Conr>"r, C. UnvV. Jornneh, W. Luke, Misses Cable and Kirlccaldie.