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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1789, 14 February 1918, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOR THE WOUNDED SOLDIER ,'|3s Cfjiircliv Army has provided ambulance cars,' friends of the wounded, special hospitals, convalescent homes, garden parties, free trips to London’s sights, picnics, and everything that will help to make him look hack by and bye on “Blighty” as the place of overflowing kindness apd hospitality.; : FOR PRISONERS OF WAR AND OTHERS She sends thousands of parcels every week to British and Colonial prisoners of war in Germany. . She trains discharged and partly disabled soldiers on her farm and pays them wages. Everywhere the Church Army worker is a friend to the soldier, the nurse, the orphan, the widow, and the homeless. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO HELP? WHEN A SOLDIER GOES ON LEAVE TO BLIGHTY, He is met at the station by members of the National Guard, Women’s Reserve or City of London Motor Volunteers, who are working with the Church Army. He is taken to one of our Church Army Hostels —probably to our Buckingham Palace Hotel, where there are GOO beds at Gd per night. At the Army Pay Office in the same hotel he can got an advance of pay. Refreshments are provided at any hour, day or night. A bath, with towel and soap provided, costs 3d. A change of linen can be obtained free. The soldier stores his kit in our cloak-room free. He has the free use of the billiard-room, and games. In the reading-room he can sit, smoke, and write letters on stationery which the Church Army provides free. There is a post-box in the/hotel. He may leave his valuables in the Church Army safe. When he returns he calls again; the morning that he goes back to France he gets breakfast at 5 a.m. —about 400 breakfasts of bacon and eggs are served at 5 a.m. every day. Such a big work would usually require, an enormous number of “servants,” but the Church Army employs very few. The boys are waited on and attended to by men and ladies who give their services for the love of God and of their country, and out of gratitude to our brave soldiers. IN NEW ZEALAND The Church of England works in New Zealand through its Military Affairs Committee, Address: Diocesan Office, Mulgrave Street,- Wellington, It provides Institutes at Trentham, Featherston, Tauherenikau, and Rotorua.