EGYPTIAN FAIR

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 143, 20 June 1925, Page 9

EGYPTIAN FAIR

OPENED THIS AFTERNOON WITH

BIG ATTENDANCE.

Help for the great work 'being done for the children's homes of Wellington by the Rev: Canon Feilden Taylor is sought to-day by medium of the Egyptian Fair, which opened this afternoon before a large crowd at the Town Hall. The fair is really a huge bazaar, which takes the form of an Egyptian market, and will be continued for a full wetk, the direct object of which ;Y to raise the sum 0f,£3000 .for. three children's homes in Wellington, viz.,. St." Mary's Home, Karori,- the Boys' Home, Lower Hutt; and the St.' Barnabas Home for derelict babies at' Khandallah. These homes are all hard-pressed-for-the means, to carry on, so much so, in one instance, that it was feared, that the honje would have to be closed down altogether. This would be a discredit to the Empire City. Canon Taylor has resolved that it shall not be, and when he takes a task in hand he has a way of going through with it. The possession of a home means much. Just to be able to go home and feel that it is your home, that in it you are free to do as you like,' that it is a sanctuary in which you can house all your possessions, and wherein you may forget all the little cares and worries of everyday life. The boy has his room at home, with the absurd pictures' on the walls, and his belongings scattered round.: But it is his home, and noone would think or dare to dispute his possession of it. The man has his home and maybe his study, where he can find rest and sanctuary from everything of the outside world. ■ The wife has her home and kitchen, where everything is hers in undisputed possession. But consider those who have no home, those unfortunates who have no place to call their own, no sanctuary, no place where there is any care, or thought of welfare, or even the barest comfort. How many people realise that in New Zealand there are. thousands of children without even proper nourishment. , Do we sufficiently think of those children whose parents are not worthy of the name, or of the boy whose parents cannot control him so that he has to be handled by the police? It 13 to'help these young people, the citizens of the future, that Canon Taylor has launched his Egyptian Fair, and for it he asks all the support possible. He is compelled under present conditions to refuse many children each week simply because there is nowhere that they can be put, no money to help them, and nothing can be done until the financial side of the homes .is stabilised.- The week is to.be "Children's Week," with the slogan: 'T>o your best—the kiddies need it badly." There will be a baby show on Wednesday afternoon. The market.will be open each day from 2 30 to 5 p.m. and from 7.30 to 10 p.m. The following are the various stallholders :— Tobacco, Mrs. C. E. Laurenson ; hardware, Mr. D. Allen; jumble, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Kirk, and Miss Barnicoat; cake, Mesdames J. A. Plinuner W. Watts, E. M. Mason, C. J. Robert: son, R. King, and Miss Bakewell; books, Mesdames Hudson, Bird, O. G. Kember and Andrew; flower, Mesdames Ellis' Leighton, Robinson, and Darnell; needlework, Mesdames Nicholls, Bell, Cohen Lee, Ray-Brown, Watson, Brown, Misses Nicholls, Parlane, Jenkyns, Bell, Telfer, and Wood; giant bon-bons, Mrs Harvey, Misses Turton (2), Evans. Fogg and White; art, Miss Brandon; baby clothes, Mesdames Shirtcliffe, R / Hayes, and T. H. Kemp; refreshment-, room, Misses qark and Bock. Each of the stalls is assisted by a large number of young ladies who busily attend to the selling of the various articles on the many stalls.