HOME FOR WAR WORK

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 187, 4 May 1940, Page 13

HOME FOR WAR WORK

Lord Bledisloe’s Action (By Telegraph—Press Association.) » AUCKLAND, May 3. Not content with offering his Gloucestershire mansion, Lydney Park, to the New Zealand Government ae a military hospital or convalescent home for soldiers, Lord Bledisloe has made his London residence, 52 Sloane Street, available to New Zealand women resident in England as a centre for the preparation of comforts for the Expeditionary Force. This information has been received by Mrs. Marler, Auckland, from Lady Day, wife of Sir Cecil Day, formerly official secretary to the Governor-Gen-eral and now attached to the High Commissioner’s office in London. Lady Day stated that she visited the house and found the large drawingroom, morning-room, and dining-room prepared for working bees, , which would be held there to sew and knit for the troops. Lord Bledisloe’s original offer of Lydney Park was communicated to the New Zealand Government on September 27 by the High Commissioner, Mr. Jordan, and was accepted immediately with warm appreciation of his generosity. A reply was sent that the Government would take advantage of it as circumstances might indicate, but at such an early stage no more definite indication could be given.