ARTS AND CRAFTS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 42, 13 November 1936, Page 4

ARTS AND CRAFTS

i Pioneer Club Display Each year the Arts and Crafts Circle of the Pioneer Club hold a display of all the work done at their weekly meetings throughout the year, and the club members arc always very interested to .see the clever and delightful work. This year’s display was held yesterday afternoon, and was opened by the president of the club, Miss Amy Kane. The articles were all arranged on tables round the walls and down the centre of the lounge, making a widely-varied exhibition of many types of art and handwork. The most popular form of work this year seemed to be pewter, and there were lovely collections of trays, trinket boxes, bread-boards, picture frames and other articles made in beaten and hand-painted pewter in many charming designs. There was a great deal of painted woodwork, too, seen in quaint little three-legged stools, vases and bowls, firescreens, trays, stands for hot dishes, and so on, all executed in bright and harmonious colourings. Some lovely pieces of pottery and delicately-painted china were much admired, and there were a number of sets of cocktail glasses, hand-painted and with pewter trays to match. There was also a large table of embroidery and knitted work, and various other articles of clever execution and attractive appearance.

Mrs. Mitchell, president of the Arts

and Crafts Circle, welcomed all present, apd said that although there were perhajis not as many exhibits as last year, all were of a very high standard. She thanked the committee for their help during the year, and thanked Mrs. Haines for her gift of some beautiful roses to Miss Kane and herself. She announced that the circle liad given the club a shade for the standard lamp aud two cocktail trays, made by members of the circle.

Miss Kane congratulated the circle on the quality and variety of the exhibits, and said that it was one of the oldest-established circles in the club, and a particularly enthusiastic one. Credit was due to Mrs. Whitt, who had been teaching the members new work and bad done much toward keeping it at a high standard. She then presented the prizes, which had been donated by members, and were awarded as follows:— Brass, Mrs. Haines and Mrs. Macdonald ; pewter, Miss Boyd and Mrs. Forster; painting on wood, Mrs. Finlay; needlework, Miss Jourdain and Miss Y. Dawson; best piece of work, Mrs. Cummings; original design, Mrs. R. Pope; best collection, Mrs. R. Pope; special prize painting, Mrs. Haines.

The anxiety of the matron and her staff at the Otaki Health Camp regarding children’s clothing and bedding has been relieved a great deal lately by the gift of approximately £6O worth of goods from the ladies’ auxiliary of the Wellington Children’s Health Camp Association.