LORD ROBERTS’ APPEAL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9136, 4 May 1908, Page 7

LORD ROBERTS’ APPEAL.

300 VETERANS TO LEAVE WORKHOUSE. Lord Roberts writes to the Express:—“Last month I was [permitted by your kindness to make an appeal to the public on behalf of the veterans of our country. lam glad to say that the response jto this appeal, issued as it was under the patronage and immediate support of his Majesty the King, has been generous and universal. “The central fund amounts at this date to over £20.000, but-the awakened gratitude and sympathy of the public give us every hope that this sum will be largely increase!. Offers of help have poured in from every quarter. “A complete scheme of administration has now been worked out which provides for the immediate release from the worknouses of a large proportion of their veteran inmates, and the committee trust that this delivery will begin within the next ten davs. “Three hundred of these old warriors will thus shortly be provided for, and the policy of rescue will he steadily pursued as our funds may permit. “There can be no greaer discouragement to recruiting this country than the sight of a medalled veteran being taken to his last Home with all the ignominy of a pauper’s funeral.”