HELPING SOLDIERS CHILDREN

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1918, Page 6

HELPING SOLDIERS CHILDREN

The many needs of the soldiers on active service are apt to make people forget the urgent necessities of wives and children of the fighting men. This aspect of the war has received special attention from the Church Army. Recreation rooms for soldiers' wives and widows have been opened in many parishes. The Army also helps many poor women who have been summoned to France to see badly-wounded relatives. The Army's holiday home at Godstone has been set aside for the motherless children of soldiers. It is already full, and an additional home is being sought where more children can be sheltered until the war ends or they are old enough to earn their .living. The Church Army, indeed, is foster-mother to a great family of children numbering some thousands. This is only one of the countless activities of the Church Army's war-work in England, in the Royal Navy, on every battlefront, in the New Zealand training camps, and on our troop ships and hospital ships. The Church Army's appeal for more funds—£so,ooo is needed—deserves a hearty response from all patriotic New Zealanders, as the money is to be applied to helping our boys in camp or wherever they may be sent on active service.