LATEST NEWS FROM SUNSHINELAND

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)

LATEST NEWS FROM SUNSHINELAND

Peter Pan Sends Out An S.O.S. 900 Yards of Linings Required For Our Sunshine Quilts Dear Boys and Oris —. Wendy is silling in a sea of patches looking very hurt and indignant. "But, Peter Pan," she is nailing. "What about my letter; where is it going to go?" For once, however, I have had to be really very firm. "It's no good, Wendy," I said severely. "Something must be done about the Silver Lining Fund — and quickly, 100. I simply must wriie a letter to the Budget folk about it." Now the story relating to this decision of mine, to rob Wendy of her usual weekly letter, is briefly this. At the commencement of our 1937 Sunshine Campaign, I found Wendy, one cold autumn afternoon, looking really harassed and worried, and studying a sheet of figures in frowning silence. "It's the linings, Peler Pan," she told me. "As far as I can see we are going to need 900 yards of lining material to line our 1937 Sunshine Quilts." Nine hundred yards! It seemed a tremendous item. However, as Wendy explained, knitted patchwork quills without linings are simply useless. Little toes quickly find their way through the knitting — the stitching which keeps the patches together becomes undone, and, alas, only too soon the patchwork quill has fallen to pieces. The reverse is just the case when the quill is Warmly lined. When a thick lining of flannelette or winceyetle is firmly machined to the knitted quilts, it makes a beautiful covering, twice as warm, twice as neat and pretty, and many, many limes more serviceable. Well, knowing this — knowing 100 that Wendy was tremendously busy with Sunshine Clubs, and the big task of finding baby woollies-jor many little tots — knowing all mis, I offered there and then to look after the Silver Lining Fund for her. "You needn't even think about it, Wendy. I shall have those 900 yards of lining. You see!" That Was, five weeks ago, and now to-day I am sending out an urgent S.O.S. lo Sunshine Clubs and to all readers of the Young Folks' Budget lo contribute to our Silver Lining Fund. In the Peler Pan office a mountain of unlined quilts has accumulated, att awaiting linings before'they can be sent to the many Auckland homes where they are lo bring comfort and happiness to literally hundreds of cold little people. Sunbeams, we are asking your help. Will every Sunbeam send us 3d for the Silver Lining Fund? Will every club make a special effort to raise even one or two shillings to enable us to send out our Sunshine Quilts whtle the winter nights are so bitterly cold? Will you. Sunbeams? I thought you would. And now I must away to tell Wendy to cease worrying — that threepences £?} Will descend in a silver shower upon the Budget Office just as soon as ever our i >^Llt/'x«^^ t Sunbeams know how badly we are m need of linings. *Yi/ i AOJL Best wishes, boys and girts of the Budget, your friend — \/S*^^^^