WOMEN’S WORKING CLUB.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 19 July 1917, Page 6

WOMEN’S WORKING CLUB.

CONTINUATION OF SOLDIERS’ LETTERS. In Prance, April 3, 1917. Hon. Sec., W.W.C., Taihape.—Just received your most welcome parcel containing the following articles: singlet, Handkerchief, soup, laces and sox, which I must thank your Club very kindly for. I also received some little time ago a parcel containing tobacco that I must thank your Club for. —Yours truly, Harold Wilkes. Convalescent Hospital Hornchurch. . Just a few lines to thank you for your parcel of clothing and letter dated 19/12/16, which I have just received. I was so pleased to get it, as the - contents were very acceptable. I am, as you well know by now, wounded, hut on the way to recovery. How is old Taihape progressing? I suppose there is no change. We have had some very fine weather over here of late.—With kindest regards, Rifleman J. G. Campbell, 24/2158. France, 5/5/17. Have just received from your Club a parcel containing a splendid assortment of gifts, for which please accept my very best thanks.—Yours sincerely, C. L. Nicholls. Somewhere in France, 22/4/17.

Many thanks for the very acceptable parcel which I received from your Club to-day. I am sure I do nor know how to thank you all for being so kind as to remember me so often. The contents of the parcel came at a most opportune time, as it affords me a change before we go into the firing line again. We are permitted only to have what clothing we wear when in action, and cannot carry anything extra with us, so you can understand how handy your gifts are, and you can guess how they are appreciated. I don’t think it will be very many months now before we will all be/ on our way back to dear old N.Z.,; then we shall be able to show personally our appreciation of the excellent and noble work which our womenfolk have done for us. "You are doing just as much to win as we are.—Yours very sincerely Will G. Okeby, 11/1842.

N.Z. (Command) Depot, Codford, April 15.

Many thanks for the very nice parcel which I received from your Club yesterday. According to the note enclosed it was posted on or about the 22nd September last, so you can see it has not had a direct passage. The note enclosed with the parcel was signed by A. Haggarty. As I was not sure whether it was a Miss or Mrs. H. I did not write to her. So will you please explain to her. Then* again I presume I am writing to the E. McAuliffe I used to know in the old “Pig Island.” I was the .other day what had become of your brother. I have not seen him for many a long day, and I trust he is still keeping well. I often see the Taihape Notes in the Auckland Weekly, and there note that your Club is still doing good work. JB'esl of gooH luck.— Yours sincerely, P. McLaughlan. France}, 5/4/17. I thank you very much indeed for the compact, useful parcel which reached me to-day. Every article is useful and I admire your choice of some. It makes it “worth while” when we receive such good wishes from N.Z. —Yours gratefully. Max W. Kuhtze. France, 22/4/17. I received parcel of goods last" night and have to thank you and the members of W.W. Club very much for same. All the comforts were very welcome indeed and are much appreciated. —Yours sincerely, H. J. Reid. 2nd N.Z. General Hospital, x Walton-on-Thames. I received your nice parcel this morning and I was very pleased with it and it was in good condition. I was wounded on the 21st March and I am getting on well. The rest of the Taihape boys are keeping well. Riflemen Bagley is looking well also Beilis and Maher, and a few others that I have seen. —Yours faithfully. F Ellis, 21500. - I received your parcel of the 9/11/6. I have also received several other parcels from you at various dates, for which I thank you very much. —Yours sincerely, Corpl. R. J. McDermott. 23/225. France, 25/2/17. I must really thank you for the contents of the last Fwo parcels. They arrived quite safe. I might that the day they were "posted v 's the same d"y that we mde our victorious advance. Will you be so kind as to tell your members that I have received all parcels sent to me quite safely. It is difficult to reply at once, owing to the conditions and circumstances

do not permit. —YourS sincerely, S. H. Dash, 24/1012. Egypt, 29/4/17. Many thanks indeed for nice parcel which arrived last night in good condition. Being some distance from any towns, these parcels are very acceptable. We are our of the sandy country now and are operating amongst crops of barley. We have been getting some very hot days lately. A few day ago there the temperature was 118 degrees in the shade; several of our chaps got a touch of sunstroke. Best wishes to all.—F. Snelling, 11/824. Sling Camp, 1/5/17. Please accept my best thanks for the very nice parcel you sent me. I can assure you that all the articles contained in same are very acceptable. Private Stan McClure, of Taihape also received a parcel from your Club, but there was no card in his and he wishes me to convey to you his thanks and appreciation for ssme. Wishing your Club every success in the good work and again thanking you for the very nlse gift. —Yours faithfully, Private D. F. Tidswell. This is the'"second occasion that I have received a parcel from your Club, and I have to thank you. Parcels that arrive from New Zealand are very much appreciated by us, as it shows that the people of N.Z. are not forgetting us. —Yours faithfully, W. C. Taylor.

THE KING AT THE FRONT. I WAR MACHINES INSPECTED. LONDON, July 16. Mr. Philip Gibbs, in his description of the King’s visit, says His Majesty was deeply interested in the demonstration of the latest German and British war hfventions, including General von Arinin’s improved projector for shooting flames a great distance, also projections of bursting oil and great waves of liquid fire. He was also greatly interested in a new form of smoko j barrage, concealing the movements of troops. It was used at Mes'sines with great success, the clouds being so dense that nothing was scon through the smoke at 300 yards’ distance. The demonstration of tanks was full of excitement. The King and Prince of Wales toured in one. A Headquarters correspondent states that the King, after the demonstration | of war inventions, spoke disgustedly jof the barbarism of th enemy which had compelled us to meet them witE un- . civilised weapons. Our’s were much [ more potent.