PARENTCRAFT.
NEW ZEALAND'S EXHIBITS
(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, June 30.
Mrs F H. Lister (formerly Miss Cameron, Canterbury) has come to London from Dorset in connection with the National Parentcraft Competitions due to take place at Carnegie House, Piccadilly. Exhibits from New Zealand are included. On June 24, Mrs. Lister attended at Buckingham Palace, taking with her a selection of the best entries in the competition. These she showed to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. Included in the collection were some specimens of darning and patching done by the girls at Methven School, Canterbury. The Queen spent over twenty minutes examining the various entries, which came from all parts of England, with a few from Scotland and Northern Ireland. Her Majesty displayed considerable interest in the specimens from New Zealand, and called the attention of her Lady-in-Waiting, Lady Hyde.^ to one of the patches, saying to her, "Of course, they have a very high standard there." Mrs. Lister had been given the use of the Throne Room for showing the exhibits, and she had been provided with a table 24ft in length, covered with a gold-braided crimson cloth, set facing the windows. After the exhibition in Piccadilly and the prize-giving by the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, the patches and darns from New Zealand will be returned to Methven. Unfortunately, no names had been attached to show what girls had done the work.
A toy garage, farmyard, and dolls' house furniture bought _by Lady May Abel-Smith at a recent bazaar for her boy and girl were made from Lord Lonsdale's discarded cigar boxes, states the London "Daily Telegraph." He gave a number of these to Lady Lawson, and 40 unemployed miners in the derelict village of Maryport, in Cumberland, have been making them into toys. Prince Edward has a money box given to the Duke of Kent for him, which is also made from cigar boxes, and Queen Mary purchased recently candlesticks that these men had made from discarded cotton reels.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1937, Page 19
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330PARENTCRAFT. Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1937, Page 19
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