LECTURES FOR SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1917, Page 6

LECTURES FOR SOLDIERS.

LANTERN SLIDES FOR NEW (PLYMOUTH. The Victoria League' has formed a new branch to enable lectures to be given to soldier* on interesting subjects. About 100 hospitals were circularised in April last, and, as a result, over 200 lectures were given in four months. In a letter to Mrs. C. H. Burgess, Miss Gertrude Drayton, secretary of the London executive, states that the executive will be very grateful for any overseas contributions. The lectures will be given indiscriminately to men of the British Army and overseas contingents, and the sub. jects are chosen to give the men knowledge useful after their discharge. Mis* Drayton adds: "I am delighted to be able to tell you of a very generous gift which the central executive has lately received from an anonymous friend, consisting of a large number of war lantern slides, made from the official photographs. These lantern slides are given for use at the discretion of the executive, but with a suggestion that a large proportion should go overseas. I am, therefore, directed to say that one set will be sent to the Victoria, League in New Plymouth. The slides- have been arranged in three sets representing the work of the troops on the different fronts, the navy, munition work, Red Cross work, and a selection of slides showing troops from all the different parts of the Empire. It has not been able to send the whole ttree sets to each New Zealand committee. They have, therefore, been distributed in such a. way that jt may be possible to arrange exchanges, a.nd so make the slides available for as many people as possible. With each box goes an annotated catalogue which provides material for describing the slides, sufficient, we think, to form the basis of a lecture. These slides are all being sent off this week (August la), and the executive hopes they may be useful to the Victoria League in New Plymouth."