Y.M.C.A.
!*■ —.— SPECIAL APPEAL FOR FUNDS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The approval of the Minister of Internal Affairs has been granted to the Y.M.C.A. for a public appeal for funds to assist in the maintenance of the service to New Zealand soldiers. It is explained there arc urgent and increasing demands the funds of the association in connection with the service for the fighting forces of the Dominion, and that in view of present commitments ;ilonc a special appeal to the public is imperative if the service is to he maintained over Hue coming winter at the front. £25,000 has jmt"been remitted to the London headquarters of the Association to meet immediate requirements, and a cable message bus been received from the New Zealand honorary commissioner in London urging that addition to th,: Association workers for the troops must be sent forward if developments are not to be seriously hantpered. At ,n meeting of tlio national committee of the Association it was decided that the ilitv of appeal, which is fixed for March 15, should be known as "Red Triangle Uay." Organisation is to bo proceeded [with immediately in all the centres.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 January 1918, Page 5
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193Y.M.C.A. Taranaki Daily News, 9 January 1918, Page 5
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