LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 48, 20 November 1920, Page 11

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE WOOL SEASON Sir,—Messrs. Williams and Kettle, Ltd., sorit. a chequo on Octobcr 25 for ,£2 Os. lid., being surplus profits 011 black wool given >0 Hie Church Army by "Weber shcopfarniors, to bo sold for the poor in London. This wool was commandeered by the Jmporial Government, and realised .£56 17s. Id. Tlio good work was commenced in 1910, and during that year black fleeces were colloctej by the vicar of Weber and sold by '.Messrs. Williams and Kettle for ,£3l Bs. In 191G donations, were also given, bringing the total tfeut year To JiG3 9s. 6d.'_ Since the war tlio proceeds have been divided, and last year JJ2OO was sent Home fn time for Christians dinners to tho poor in our largo homes and institutions, arid tho balance, £Vli tts. 5d., for the upkeep of tho Hhurch Army homes, in which are 210 of tho childron of those who died while lighting. These are in smaller homes, provided by the Government, but run by HlO Church Army, thp object bein" to bring up in a home-lixo way the children of thoso ivho died for the Empire. Two (•rained Evangelist" Church Army sisters are in charge of each home, in which these assets of the Emnjro are being trained to become good citizens, and alsw as much as in us lies' a training to befit them as citizens of the Heavenly Kingdom. ' (Tho French speak of their war orphans as "wards of the nation"). Some farmers in the Ormondvillo Church District are intending to give their black wool to tho Church Army Ti'on. secretary for the tfehefit «f the motherless or fatherless chTTdren of ITroso who patrolled tlie seas to k.cep open our trade routes, as well as those who kept Ihc llag Ityftig on the battlefields. I ven'uro to explain this work for tho. Empire thnt.jtho Church Army is now doing, and trust I have .not intruded too much upon your space. I also trust that, sheepfarmers generally will assfSt '"n 'this good work for the nation, commenced in 1910 by the Wclier farmere, and contained by *fiein to tho present timo. Messrs. Williams and Kettle, wool- merchants, will bo pleased to roceivo consignments at any of Oielr houses.—l am, etc., F. W. WHIBLEY, • Hon. Secretary C.A. iu N.Z. 1 The Vicarage, Ormondvillo, November 15,' 1920.