VICTORY FAIR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 147, 22 June 1940, Page 12

VICTORY FAIR.

" SPIRIT OF INSPIRATION."

FUNDS FOR SEA QUEEN.

The Town Hall has appeared in many varied guises during the past week in connection with the Queen Carnival, and yesterday it provided the setting for a Victory Fair. The fair was organised by the Navy League Women's Committee, in aid of the Queen of the Seas, Mr. W. B. Darlow. A scene of animation was presented throughout the day, a canopy of flags fluttering gaily over the heads of the purchasers and the stallholders.

In opening the fair, Mrs. W. E. Parry said New Zealand could not have chosen a more opportune moment in which to launch her great effort on behalf of the eick and wounded. Tbe effort could not f3.il to move everyone to admiration of the way busy and leisured people, business firms, and private individuals, had given unstintingly of their time and money. Mrs. Parry said that she had attended some of the meetings called bv the organiser of the Mrs. R. G. Coats, and had been impressed by the care that every stallholder had taken to select wares to suit all tastes and price thepi to suit all pockets.

z "Everyone who comes here to purchase will take away something worth buying," Mrs. Parry continued. "Better still, they will also take away ithe immense satisfaction of having, by their contributions, personally thanked the men of our fighting forccs, whose great need calls upon our help and sympathy. The very name of the fair is inspiring, and the spirit in which it has been organised is carried out by all. The well-known generosity of Auckland will ensure its success."

Mrs. Parry was introduced by the president of the Navy League, Commander C. H. T. Palmer, who expressed liis thanks to the women who had worked so hard to arrange the fair.

Varied Entertainment. The goods for sale wera of a wide variety, including fancy work, art souvenirs, and antiques, as well as cakes, sweets, produce and flowers. A collection of water colours, which were being raffled, were also on view. A "Hall of Mystery," where patrons could have their fortune told, provided further entertainment. Musical items were given at intervals during the morning, afternoon and evening, by the St. James' Salon Quartet, the Blind Institute Band, and the Waterside Workers' Band. Another feature of the programme in the evening was a sailors' hornpipe, presented by the pupils of Beryl Nettleton.

The committee arranging the function comprised:—Chairman, Mrs. Charles Webster; organiser, Mrs. R. G. Coats; treasurer, Mrs. H. Tiarks; secretary, Miss Ann Quale; conveners, Mrs. Alan Donald, Mrs. J. H. Prater, Mrs. Claude White, Mrs. E. H. B. Milsom, Mrs. Eliot R. Davis, Mrs. G. H. Metcalfe, Mrs. A. Eisdell Moore, Mrs. D. L. Orr, Mrs. W. W. Morrah, Mrs. H: M. Barnes, Mrs. h! Corbin, Mrs. H. McCoy, Miss E. H. Willoughby, Misses C. and F. Murray) Miss D. Hayward.