THE Y.M.C.A. IN CAMP AND AT THE FRONT

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1917, Page 2

THE Y.M.C.A. IN CAMP AND AT THE FRONT

The good work done by the Y.M.O.A in making more happy and comfortable the lot of our soldiers in camp and at the Front is acknowledged and appreciated by everybody, most of all by the “Boys” themselves. Therefore, there can b 3 no donbt that a. Y.M.O.A. Gift Book will be popular with the public when it is known thafr. the profits are to be devoted to the; war work of the Y.M.O.A. Mr Arthur Yapp is editing, and Messrs Jarrold & Sons will publiih “Told in the Hats,” a vol urne containing stories and experience* - , grave and gay, vivid and dramatic, told by soldiers and sailors in tho Y.M.O.A. huts in France, in Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia and in the camps in Great Britain. In addition to the soldiers’ and sailors’ stories, ths book will contain contributions by very eminent Y.M.O.A. helpersAmong others, Lady Rodney, the Hob Mrs Stuart Worley, Mies Annie Swan, Miss Lena Ashweil, Sir Robert BadenPowell, Rev Joseph Hocking, Rev Xoel Mellish, V. 0., George Birmingham, Pett Ridge and lan Hay. A very attractive feature of the Y.M.O.A. Gift Book will be theillustrations in line and colour, for which the late Cyrus Cunco is responsible. The fine war pictures were absolutely the last drawings executed by the popular artist and are certainly among his v9ry best work. , “ Told in the Huts ” 13 to be published for a worthy cause and will no 'doubt be worthily supported by the pubi c. The book is soon to arrive in New Zealand.