PARCELS OF SUNSHINE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 147, 23 June 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)

PARCELS OF SUNSHINE.

I know perfectly well, girls, that you all love hearing about the Sunshine parcels "Postie" brings me. The only trouble is that lack of space prevents me telling you of them all. This week has really proved tremendously excit- i ing. To begin with, bright and early on I Monday morning arrived a parcel of 40 j patches, with no accompanying name or j address to give us any clue as to the j identity of \ the sender. Strangely j enough, too, that very afternoon ! another anonymous giver sent in j 17 patches, while the next morning's: mail brough 28 from Babette Yeoman j of Birkenhead. Then, of course, there were the ! singlets. Oh, those darling singlets! I go into ecstasies whenever I think j of them. Only this morning five beauti- i ful ones, arrived from "Mrs. B-, Mavis, j Una and Mum," of Marerehi, and yesterday a parcel of four arrived from a ! i Sunbeam v/ho prefers to remain un- I known. Then Dorothy Booth, of Ke;cpschi, forwarded four singlets ar.d a little pair of knitted pilchers, and Marie Fyne, of Balmoral, enclosed with her two singlets a wee pair of bootees. Yet another anonymous Sunbeam forwarded a cream singlet and some orange patches, and Cecil Fuller, of Epsom, sent half a dozen patches with her singlet, while "Mother and two sons" also contributed a parcel of patches and a singlet. Grandma, of i Onehunga, one cf our loyal Sunshine helpers, sent two singlets and her | patches were just lovely—a baker's dozen—whilst "Just one more," as her j pen-name implies, sent one more—a dear little singlet it was too.

I A really exciting parcel came from Vera BatLle, of Opotiki, who sent all I sorts of lovely things dresses and ( coats and shoes—while Leslie Deas contributed a quilt, a shawl and a blanket. Rayma Stainton, of New Lynn, was another Sunbeam who sent in one m of these miscellaneous parcels—hers ; j containing patches, a baby jacket, a ; cardigan, singlet and socks. J Then Adelene, whom I suspect to | be one of our first Sunbeams, sent in | a delightful parcel, which included two of the dearest little pairs of woolly ! bed socks and a wonderfully warm and | cosy blanket. Sister Pat and I loved that cot blanket, Adelene. It is made 1 of a lovely warm red material, girls, j with bright blue blanket stitching all j around and little white furry mush- | rooms and rabbits stitched all over it. i In the centre in blue stitching is the j rhyme: 1 liar) a raliliH. A dear lit tip rabbit. Ami I acnri-liod for my roibblt Most everywhere. Nor must I forget to tell you about 1 the parcel the McGeehan children, of Mount Albert, contributed nice woolly bed jackets and bonnets and bed socks. They were just lovely, children. I And now, before my space is all used up, I must thank Kitty Seaton for her parcel. A little bird whispered to me that the nice woolly shawl she : sent in was her dolly's, but that she was eager to give it up to a little cold baby. That's the really true Sunshine ; spirit, Kitty. Thank you dear. o^^