ADDINGTON HOME.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20428, 24 December 1931, Page 3

ADDINGTON HOME.

CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. The Christmas programme for the Addington Men's Home, arranged by the nianaget, Staff-Captain Dry, opened on "Tuesday evening, when an entertainment was provided by Miss Chappie and party. The hall was packed by an enthusiastic audience. In introducing the party, the manage! said that in the Home led a rather lonely, if a full, life. They were more or less cut off from the world, and did not often have/the opportunity of. welcoming such a paity as Miss Chappie's. Now she had discovered the home, he hoped they might in the coming vear have the pleasure of frequently seeing her among them. The programme, every item of which was insistently encored, was provided by Miss Chappie, the Misses Rennie (instrumental trio); Jean Rimmer, and Iris Elwin, and Messrs Ron I ' oster - Hunter, and Lawford. Mrs V Brown and Mrs Lnwford played the accomDnrin" an interval, Christinas gifts, consisting of a pair of socks and a. handkerchief for e-ch man. were distributed by Mrs Barnes and Mrs Elford the Captain remarking that the men had to thank Mrs Barnes who secured the rifts for them. B.icli-mem-ber of the visitinrr party was also presented with a souvenir of the occasThe programme for Christmas will be further carried on. including n Christmas dinner to-morrow. are at,wr»»t between 160 and l<u men in the Home.