Help For Dinner
Friendship House will serve Christmas dinner this year to about 60 guests who would otherwise spend the day alone, perhaps on bread and butter and cups of tea. It all depends on how many helpers volunteer to do the work involved, the superintendent of the Christchurch
Central Mission (the Rev. W E. Falkingbam) said yesterday. The mission entertained about 12 guests at Friendship House last year, but with the Improved facilities up to five times as many could be served this year, he said. “At least a dozen helpers will be needed to prepare and serve a meal—and to offer friendship—to this number of guests.” It is not easy, however, to
find volunteers to cook Christ: mas dinner for strangers in the middle of the day. Most women, even unmarried women, usually become involved with a family Christmas dinner.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32164, 6 December 1969, Page 3
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