A WAR PROBLEM

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 11, 13 July 1943, Page 6

A WAR PROBLEM

CHILDREN'S CLOTHING

At a recent meeting of the Women's Section, Wellington R.S.A., over which Mrs. C. H. Weston presided, it was stated by the convener of the sewing group that 324 garments had been sent to the welfare convener, and Mrs. Weston spoke of the need for these garments. Children's clothing, she said, was not' being imported and was not being made locally in sufficient quantity to meet the demand. The less that was used of goods that came to New Zealand in ships the greater. the war effort, and the remaking of good used material, and the re-knitting of wool was a necessity. Also, the cost of garments was often prohibitive, and women with several children, unable to get help, found it impossible to search for necessities, or to undertake the making of clothing. Mrs. Weston suggested that toe hundreds of women, who, for two years, had been making lovely things from used material for children in the bombed areas in England, could give some of their time to helping young New Zealand mothers with the problem of clothing their children. This problem, she said, was not an economic but a war problem.