SOROPTIMIST CLUB

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29830, 24 May 1962, Page 2

SOROPTIMIST CLUB

Welfare Work Supported The Soroptimist Club of Christchurch recently contributed £l6 towards assisting a new settier to return to Germany for special treatment, said the report presented at the club’s annual meeting. The case was recommended by the Dominion secretary of the National Council of Churches (the Rev. A. A- Brash). Proceeds raised from the club’s wishing well, held during the Christchurch Festival, were sent to the Nurse Maude District Nursing Association (£6l 10s) for assisting needy patients in their own homes, and to the Protection of Home and Family Association (£6O) to be used particularly for children, said the report. Contributions made at the club’s Sunday after-church lunches were used to send toys to the Hana Andersen Club for children in Singapore and for Christmas parcels for the aged. The club provides three sponsorships under the Save the Children Fund, sends books and magazines to the Langford House library, and has contributed £lO for a chain of office for the Mayoress of Christchurch. Members assisted in selling Health Stamps and attended the children’s creche during Mental Health Week. Patients were visited at Burwood. Princess Margaret and Christchurch Hospitals. Books and magazines were distributed, and 33 parcels delivered at Christmas. Parcels were also sent regularly to a sponsored family in .Austria, said the report.

Officers elected were as follows: president, Mrs D. J Wales; vice-presidents, Misses D Feaver and B L. Loughhead; committee, Misses D R Lye, S Rolls, M Craddock, and J Hatherly; divisional union delegates. Misses Loughhead and Lye.