PATRIOTIC WORK.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1918, Page 3

PATRIOTIC WORK.

The Mayoress of New Plymouth is consantly receiving acknowledgments of gifts received 'by men at the front, and those working amongst the men, from the New Plymouth Women's Patriotic Committee, and by the last mail further letters of that character were received, amongst which were the following:— Mrs. N. Petersen, wrfiting from Bal-. ma Lawn, Brockenhuret, in thanking the committee for Christmas gifts received, says, inter alia:—"We are getting very fond of Taranaki, it beiug one of the few places to remember the sisters. We are always coming across the generosity of the Taranaki people- The other day I wanted some slippers, and when I got them I found that they had come from Waitara. . . . Miss Grant is so energetic. . . . She makes the most of the money sent to her. . . . We have all the shell-shock and nerve cases on one floor of the hospital, and eye, ear, and nose cases on another. ... It is surprising the interest the boys take in the wild flowers-" Two primroses from the adjoining forest were, enclosed in the letter. Mrs. Kate de Oartaret, who is one of the official visitors at the Walton-on-Thames Hospital, says:—"ColonelClaude Weston entrusted me with some of the money sent to be used for the New Zealand boys- I can assure you of tha great help it is to have some money for extra comforts for the boys, and I will make the best use of the amount allotted to me." Second-I/ieutenant R. J. Gibbons, adjutant on board troopship No. 99, writes on behalf of the O.C. (Captain J. C. MTCillop), 9th Regiment, W.E-C. Mounted Rifles, to thank the committee for the very acceptable donation of gifts for the men (two petrol tins of honey) of the 33rd Reinforcements. He says:— "The meals are excellent, hut the monotony of the fare was broken by the gifts so kindly supplied." Two other soldiers—Private Waldock and "A British Tommy"—also acknowledge receiving parcels from the New Plymouth Committee, which were given to them on being discharged from the New Zealand Stationary Hospital in France. The latter says:—'Such parcels have cheered many soldiers on their way back to the firing-line."