FOR WOMEN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 303, 22 December 1943, Page 3

FOR WOMEN

BRITAIN'S PRAISE CLOTHES FROM N.Z. L.ADY GALWAY GUILD'S WORK The Lady Galway Patriotic Guild during the past month has dispatched to Great Britain 22 cases containing thousands of warm, clean garments, according to the report of the honorary secretary, Mrs. M. E. Svensen. The High Commissioner has been authorised to direct the cases to the countries most needing them. It was announced that headquarters would be closed from December 22 to January 8. The following extracts from letters which have recently been received from the Women's Voluntary Services in England will be of great interest to members of the guilds, who have been so untiring in their efforts for those less fortunate than themselves. Advice has been received that some Auckland cases have arrived at Malta. "Two more splendid shipments have just arrived, and as usual I am attaching formal receipts, which, I am afraid, is a very poor way of saying thank you for your magnificent generosity. It is quite beyond me how you can still send us such lovely presents, but we are truly thankful that you can." "1 am beginning to think words are inadequate to convey to you our gratitude for the work your organisation his ceaselessly done for us since the beginning of the war. I would like you all to see a woman bombed from her home being fitted out in your clothes, amazed, as she climbs into a coat, to be told it has come all the way from New Zealand."

"No speeches, no flag-wagging, can cement the Empire ties more inviolably than this, that somebody in New Zealand should be helping somebody in Great Britain. The miles of land and ocean dwindle to nothing. You nave "become Mrs. Jones from Next-door lending a helping hand." "Forgive me for writing so soon, but I cannot forbear to thank you for the eight cases of clothing which have just arrived. They are admirable in every way." All the letters were signed by Elsa Dunbar, head of,the Overseas Department of the W.V.S.