Residential Club.
FOR RETURNED SAILORS AND SOLDIERS.
It was a ladies’ committee that initiated the movement to establish a Residential Club in Brisbane for soldiers, and their efforts have been untiring since the first meeting was held on May 10th of last year. Combining with the Returned Soldiers’ Association they soon established a strong committee, the result is that the club is now ready for the soldiers, having been officially opened by His Excellency the Governor on the 11th of this month. The building, which is at the corner of Wharf and Ann streets, is a two-storey building and has every convenience for a comfortable club. Entertainments of all kinds have been organised in the cause of the Residential Club during the last year, the most notable being the Queen’s Carnival, which brought in an approximate result of £4,000. £11,000 will be required to clear the debt on the building, and so far over £7,000 has been collected or donated towards the fund.
The furniture, which is equal to that of any club in Brisbane, has been provided through the efforts of women on the Furnishing Committee, the Girls’ Clubs in Brisbane, St. Stephen’s Girls, and through the generosity of leading business firms in the city.
The club is under the management of the Returned Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Association. It is proposed to run it on broad lines so that any returned soldier may feel that he has a club of his own in Brisbane. The best possible accommodation is provided, and the tariff is made sufficiently low to suit the average soldier’s means. It is intended to run the club on non-political and non-sectarian lines, and no evidence of the common bond of sympathy that exists for this movement could be more striking than the fact that men and women of all denominations and creeds have met together for the last year to enthusiastically further the project.
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THE RETURN.
There has been no wheat grown in the Northern war areas of France for the last two years, but the poppies have come up just the same. The peasants believe that the scarlet flowers have sprung up where soldiers bled.