SOLDIERS' COUPONS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1752, 28 August 1917, Page 4

SOLDIERS' COUPONS.

A HANDY NORM ON 01 NT. NEW Y.M.C.A. N N'T IN; PRISM. A new scheme for rcnchinu’ (he soldiers on active service with gifts from 1 heir friends and relatives has just been set on foot hy (he Y.M.C.A., with every prospect of meet in*; a widely-felt need. Acting promptly on tile suggestion of a soldier, it has completed arrangements for the issue of threepenny coupons in neat little booklets of ten and twenty that can he conveniently enclosed in a letter. These coupons an; redeemable in goods at any of the Y.M.C.A. canteens, winch are to he found practically wherever the men are. The obvious advantage of |hose coupons is tipi! they provide a specially convenient and attractively simple means of sending’ small sums of money to the front, where they can he readily turned into eatables, or some other requirement of the moment, procurable at the Y.M.C.A, Huts. The scheme has tin* approval of the Government, and the Postal authorities have consented to handle the coupons and see to their distribution without fee or deduction of any sort. The booklets, which are sold al ‘is (id and f>s, are now procurable at any of the 800 money-order post ofliccs throughout the Dominion. ]l is anticipated, (hat as soon as the simplicity and economy of the system become known to the public it will be very widely availed of.