"BRING AND BUY"

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 42, 13 November 1937, Page 6

"BRING AND BUY"

For Free Kindergarten Association The splendid work done by the Wellington Free Kindergarten Association is well known, and sympathy and support is always given to the gatherings organised throughout the year in order to raise funds. Their final effort for 1937 took place yesterday afternoon when the president, Mrs. J. A. Doctor, and members of the council organised a very successful “Bring and Buy.” Mrs. Guy Didsbury had very kindly lent her charming home at, 224 The Terrace for the occasion. The afternoon was warm and fine and the guests bad an opportunity of wandering about the lovely terraced garden that stretches down the hillside behind the house.

Afternoon tea was served in the drawing-room by members of the association and the teaching staff. The room looked' particularly attractive with tall vases of purple irises and pink lupins on the mantelpieces, and bowls of many-coloured roses on the window-sills. Downstairs stalls had been arranged in the rooms opening on to the beautiful gardens. The auxiliary members were in charge of the cake stall, and stalls for Christmas gifts and for flowers and seedlings were organised by the council. During the afternoon Mrs. H. D. Bennett gave a very interesting talk on Maori arts and crafts illustrating her remarks with much beautiful Maori craft work, some of which had been lent by Lady Pomare. Mrs. Bennett referred particularly to the art • of weaving, which had been done for the Maori tribes by the women of rank and leisure. Taking a blade of flax and a shell, Mrs. Bennett showed how designs were cut and the green part of the flax scraped away. She explained how the Maoris wove the flax into cloaks and mats or rolled it into the long brittle fringes of the pin-piu. The many interesting things in her exhibition included a korowai, which is the cloak worn by the women, a beautiful cloak of kiwi feathers, a kawe, which is an ingenious device for carrying wood on the back, and a hat. woven of pingao seaweed. Mrs. Didsbury thanked Mrs. Bennett for her very interesting talk. The afternoon concluded with many expressions of thanks to Mrs. Didsbury for her kindness in lending her home in support of such a "worthy cause. Returned to Wellington Mrs. R. Semple has returned to Wellington from the south. Nurse Marsden has returned to Wellington from Christchurch. Mrs. L. F. de Berry was a passenger by the Rangatira, which arrived at Wellington from Christchurch yesterday morning. Mrs. R. Browning lias returned to Wellington from Auckland. For some time past, Miss Janet Morgan, who is retiring from the position of matron of the Alexandra Home, has .been matron of the hospital section only, Mrs. Price having been matron of the girls’ home and treasurer of both the hospital and the home. CRACK . . . CRACK . . . BUMP! “That’s them ... up to mischief again ! And that’s good health for you. I give them milk as junket, made from flavoured Birthday Reuco, and sometimes unflavoured Reneo, liquid or tablets. It builds bone and strengthens their sinews. So why bother about a bit of mischief? All grocers sell Reuco.”—Advt.