KNITTER'S BADGE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 165, 15 July 1941, Page 11

KNITTER'S BADGE

TO ENCOURAGE OUTPUT

WORKERS FOR FORCES

Knitters in Great Britain are to be encouraged to further their output ston Jhree-months- non: stop lecord of knitting comforts for SiciSfsa^r 6 entitled to wear a tor'n^^ 1, fßproved by the DirecrnHPftfln 1 " , ? Organisations, is niade of metal, the size of a shilling }f p the figure of a lion, and i S bear the inscription. "V \V for the wS V u- S - tands for volSma?y uoiker. It is expected that thousands will be issuedl almolt Uon'wi'lVh/- and th , a L the dismbuing circle! approved ° knit"

Scores of these medals will find heir way into hospital wards, where knmer^ en AE atlen^ S are enthusiasts t™h u An - ased Patient in a big London hospital, having received a generous consignment of woo from lh£n iend ; ls . det ermined that bombs shall n 9 t ruin her war effort insists upon storing her gift n several out-of-the-wav places so l H at aay be safe in raids Some she hides away at the end of the hospital's north wing, some at thl far end of the south wing, and the ''Th "r the middle of basement The Germans shall not have it all at once," she says. 'Thev win have to pay us more than one visit if thev want to get the lot." -