JUMBLE SALE

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 144, 14 March 1931, Page 16

JUMBLE SALE

Mothers’ Helpers SocietyYesterday, at the Oddfellows' Hall, a successful jumble sale was held. 'lt was run by the Mothers’ Helpers Society Committee and assistants. These jumble sales have proved extremely popular in the past with buyers, and an hour before opening time a crowd had collected outside. Good bargains were to be had in clothes, boots, hats, carpets, pictures and books. /Is soon as the doors opened, and the command “everyone to their post” was issued, an avalanche of men and women poured in the door, each one rushing to their favourite stall. Some women wanted babies’ clothes; men found greater attraction in suits, bats, and clock's that needed a little attention; and other women bought carpets, meat safes, wringers, vases, curtains, shoes, hats, and dozens of other things. The actual length of selling time was only about an hour, so it was not surprising that during the hour both seller and buyer were going at a “hundred miles per hour.” The members and friends of the Mothers’ Help Society, who sold and collected, were Miss Hilda Miles, president of the society; Mrs. McFarland, Mrs. Malcolm Reid, Mrs. Fred Ward, Mrs. C. Miles, Mrs. C. Earle, Mrs. Bayfield, Mrs. T. McKibbin, Mrs. G. Green, Mrs. J. Darling, Mrs. H. Hall, Miss J. Ellison, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. W. Norman, Miss Wallace, Miss June Reid, and Miss Gwen Fraser.

Mrs. Vernon Frost, who has been the guest of her mother, Mrs. J. H. Clay, Gonville, Wanganui, has returned fo Ohaupu.