VOCATIONAL WORK

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 81, 3 October 1921, Page 8

VOCATIONAL WORK

BY DISABLED MEN.

At the Soldiers' Club, Trentham, tomorrow Her Excellency Lady Jellicoe ■will open at 3 p.m. an interesting and important exhibition of the vocational work done by disabled returned soldiers, together with a display of some of the home industries in which some of these sufferers by the war are engaged. The exhibition is of a Dominion character, and will occupy the large hall and other rooms in the commodious clubhouse. There is a special show devoted to poultry and bee-keeping with samples 6t home-made hives, pots of honey, blocks of wax, and winter feeders. There are five classes on the poultry side, with fifty entries, aria the Chief Government Expert (Mr. Brown) will give a lecturette on the subject for the benefit of returned men. The Tauherenikau farm sends a special exhibit. Vegetable and flower comprise another section of home industries and examples of cookery yet another. The main hall of the clubhouse will be given up to the work of returned men in the shape of carpentry, engineering, basket work, leather work, embroidery, tailoring and general needlework. Another room will show the work of. returned men in painting and photography, and very creditable much of it is. There is a,lsoan exhibition of the work done by the crippled children in the Trentham Hospital receiving special treatment, and also classes for other school children. A baby show will take place to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock in the big marquee, judging of both classes—under six months and under twelve months—to be carried out by Miss M'Lean, R.R.C., matron-in-chief, and Miss Inglis. matron of the St. Helens Hospital. The tearoom will be open to visitors, and also a number of side displays.