GETTING TIRED.
(To fhe Editor.)' Sir,—After reading what the Y.M.C.A. is doing at tho front, audi about those 30,000 beds in field hospitals that are always full, we can see, unless >ve are pro-Germans, why Auckland is raising a special '£35,000. Now, cannot Taranafvi come to the fore with a VictoryFund of £20,000, to -lie divided equally between the 'English and' French Red Cross, the Y.M.C.A. (trench comforts only), and the Patriotic Fund, this sum, being equal to one week's war profits for this province), or less than is put on the totalisator in one day at an ordinary meeting, or less than Is in the £ on milk, wool, calf and cattle cheques? I am afraid that (excepting those ladies who are working) a tired feeling has set in, and your linotypa operators must wonder why the patriotic lists are so easily sot up now. But witli the boys, genorally wet and shivering, it is "up and at it again" all the time, and although at night they lio in freezing water in shell craters, and by day eat "iced" rations,, no hot drinks or meals, We cannot allow these line fellow® to fight and die for "us tui* recognised, and when they, ask, "What, are you people slacking for, anyhow?" let us reply: "No, wie are making a, supreme effort —not witli our lives like you, 'hut .by giving our best to the Taranakl Victory Fund." 1 It ha 3 Tjeen suggested that an art union with HOOO iprime sheep n,s prizes, witVall the subscriptions that can he raised, should roach' tho desired figures. Meanwhile, Wood! ds flowing like water for us. Men are dying, money is wanted badly, and at onoe, and we are standing still. I have waited for a. month for some more able person to bring this matter Up, and will now, give £IOO to"help to start it, and there' are hundreds of people in Tarana'ki better able to afford this and' larger sums than ; I am, and I trust to see some of the i wealthy men coming forward with four . figure cheques, for I (believe them to be 'too good sportsmen to allow the 6ther fellow to >do 'both the paying and) the' fighting.—l am, etc., "ij 1 1 ■ ■■ - : W. R. WIGHT. I
Rahotu, May 7, WIT.' : :i P.S.—B only 100 people had to undergo in Tftranaki what the boys at the front hare to endure you would, sir, , have to issue-supplements describing . their sufferings, and the amount I suggest would! roll in in a few days to relieve them, because it happened' at our doors, y "a '
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1917, Page 7
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435GETTING TIRED. Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1917, Page 7
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