WINTER FAIR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 207, 1 September 1932, Page 12

WINTER FAIR.

The Winter Fair in aid of St. Mary's Homes, Otahuhu, was held yesterday in the concert chamber of the Town Hall. The stalls were gaily decorated with trellis and different winter foliage, and filled with numerous dainty and useful articles. Each stall was arranged by the various churches. The produce stall was under St. Mary's, Parnell, and those in charge were Mesdames CoryWright, Houghton, T. Russell and Miss Liridesay; cakes, St. Aidan's, All Saints', St. Luke's, Mesdames G. R. Coates, W. Averill, Ponsford, Hawker and Weaver; sixpence to live shillings stall, St. Andrew's, Epsom, Mesdames George Tutt, Lawrie and Miss Harrison; work, Holy Sepulchre, St. Barnabas' and Devonport, Mesdames Carlton Hay, J. E. Draper, Misses P. Hay, H. C. Robinson and Davison; country branches stall, Mesdames Mac Murray, Wigg, Straw, Jas. Jones and Bews; kitchen stall, Query Club, Mrs. George Eddowes and Miss Huia Wiseman; sweets, (Jirls , Diocesan Association, Misses Leslie Eoberton, Joan Robertson, Dene Plummer and Marjory Tracey Inglis; books and oddments, Mrs. Barton, Misses Nolan and Henderson; refreshments, St. George's, Epsom, Otahuhu, and Ellerslie, Mesdames Grant, Davis, Stanton, Moreton and A. B. Roberton. The musical programme was arranged by Mr. and Mrs. Roger Fenton and Mies Fenton. The Rev. R. J. Stanton, who opened the fair, said the Government grant of £200 per annum was at present being withheld, thereby throwing added anxiety upon the board of management, and it was only by withdrawing about £1000 a year from capital that the homes could be kept open. While regretting the need for such an organisation, he said it was of supreme importance that every effort should be made to assist those who were unfortunate enough to need the care of the homes, and thus check the spread of what would otherwise become a paralysing evil. The hall was well filled, and the stalls sold their goods freely.