AN APPEAL FOR JAM.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 57, 7 March 1916, Page 4

AN APPEAL FOR JAM.

Letters from soldiers at the front to their parents and friends in New Zealand very frequently contain advice respecting what should be sent to them. Two articles almost invariably mentioned among things desired are cake and jam; they are surfeited with meat 'and they long for a touch of home in a piece of cake or bread and jam. Not infrequently the warning comes along, “Don’t label the package cake, rather mark it horsen'ails or dogshair,” which all accentuates the longing they feel for the cake or the jam that they relish, perhaps mere especially because it provides pleasant food for thought as well as body. Everyone who reads excerpts from soldiers’ letters that are published in various newspapers cannot do other than substantiate our own experience. This has also been the experience of the Taihape Women’s Working Club, for in another column is published a letter from its President on the subject. The club has received very many letters of thanks from Taihape district boys at the front, thanking the club for what they have received, and advising what would be most acceptable. One says “We don’t want feather-beds and roast dusk but 'I would give something for 'a fee<j of good Home bread and butter and jam.” The Women’s 'Working Club make what seems a very reasonable request in asking for donations of a tin of jam—it must be a tin that is airtight 'and will not. break. The authorities also favour this form of gift to the men at the front, and the Government will give free carriage in troopships for very considerable parcels It would not unduly tax 'anyone to contribute a two-pound tin of jam even although it may be necessary to patronise Kirkpatrick’s jam factory, for it is important the jam should be good and in secure airtight tins. The Taihape women are now seeking to send to our lads something they need, and that which will be likely to reach them, and we wish them every success in their efforts.