CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR ORPHANS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 68, 13 December 1939, Page 5

CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR ORPHANS

Commercial Travellers ANNUAL VISIT TO CITY INSTITUTIONS Members of the Wellington Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Association yesterday paid their annual Christmas cheer visit to the orphanages of the city. The association this year has donated £525 for Christmas cheer or other benefits and since 1920 lias raised and distributed £12,561 to bring happiness to those who have lost their parents or are afflicted iu some other way. Children in the orphanages have received £lO,lll. the blind soldiers’ and sailors’ fund £2350, and £lOO has been spent on literature for the blind.

The commercial travellers’ party yesterday first visited the Anglican Girls’ Home, Karori, where lhe president of the association, Mr. E. E. Brooking, conveyed the good wishes of the association to Matron Press. Sweets were distributed.

At the Wellington City Mission, Taranaki Street, the visitors were received by the missioner, Rev. H. Squires. The party then went to the Home of Compassion where it was received by Sister Elizabeth. The children showed their great appreciation of the good things brought them by the association.

Visits were paid also to the Levin Memorial Home, Berliampore, the Salvation Army Girls’ Home, Newtown, and the Citizens’ Day Nursery. Distributions by the association this year are as follows, the sums being for the purpose of Christinas cheer or for other benefits: —

Salvation Army Girls’ Home, £2O; Salvation Army Boys’ Home, £2O; Children’s Hospital, £25; Home of Compassion, £5O; Levin Memorial Home, £l2; Anglican Girls’ Home, £4O; Anglican Boys’ Home. £25; St. Joseph’s Orphanage, £5O; St. Peter’s .Mission, £5O; Citizens’ Day Nursery, £10; District Nursing Guild of St. John, £l5; Residential Nursery, £10; St. Barnabas’ Home, £l5; Porirua Mental Hospital, £2O; Child Welfare Branch', Education Department, £2O; Boys’ Institute, £5; Defective Children’s Class (Miss Emerson, 73 Hamilton Road, Hataitai), £l5; St. Thomas’s School, £5; Blind Soldiers’ Fund,.£loo: Special Class, Newtown School, £5; Miramar Public Kindergarten, £5; 'Wellington After Care Association, £B. Total, £525.