PATRIOTIC WORK.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1917, Page 3

PATRIOTIC WORK.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FROM HOME. Following is a copy of a letter received by the Women's Patriotic Society from Lady Harvey:— Langley Park, Slough, April 15, 1917. Dear Mrs. Burgess,—l am so grateful to you for all you have done to help us with the poor Belgian mothers and babies. It will be kind of you if you will convey my most sincere thanki to all those who have worked with you so well and so hard. It is a labor not lost, as the Belgian women are most sensible of all that is being done for them, and are especially touched to think that women who live so far away are doing their best to help them. Somewhere in Belgium, Friday, April 4, 1917. .

Dear Mrs. Burgess.—On behalf of my section, I wish to thank you so much for the gift stuff we received one day last week, in the front line. The cake made us think of New Zealand, the chocolate sweetened us up again, and the cigarettes went well when old Fritz started throwing iron foundries at lis later in the day, when the Good Samaritans, the Y.M.C.A. gentlemen, had gone home again. The Y.M.C.A. Institute is a great help to us fellows over here; they are the only people that come near the line to give us a bit of comfort. Well. I shall close this note thanking you so much, from a New Zealand spldier in the line.—Yours sincerely, Gilbert S. Hall. France, April 14, 1917.

Mrs. Burgess.—Dear Madam,—On hehalf of my comrades and myself I am writing these few lines thanking yon for the cake, chocolates and cigarettes which we received through the Y.M.C.A. men to-day. We happen to be in the front line trenches at present, and therefore your gift is doubly appreciated, and we arc indebted to the officers of the association for delivering personally in such conditions. (Ist 15th A. I. B.). Although we are many miles away, our thoughts are always with you all in New Zealand, and if the senders of gifts could only see the appreciation with which buckshee gifts are received, it would compensate them a. little for the trouble they go to for our •welfare. The worst of the winter is over now, and I must say it has been severe, but we are looking forward to an enjoyable summer. Stiff work lies ahead of us all, but the future is not troubling the boys, for well can they do their bst.j In closing, once more we wish you the (best of luek in your work and hope that after the war some of us may have the pleasure of returning your kindn«as. Hoping this finds you as it leaves us all at present, we are,—Yours sincerely, A. K. S. Montgomery, J. A. Bromfield, J. R. Hall, L. J. Towers, and the censor C. E. E. M.