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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 143, 19 June 1944, Page 8

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MAYORESS OPENS BAZAAR

As the mother of five children, Mrs. Appleton said, when opening the Thorndon Children's Centre bazaar in the Methodist Hall on Saturday afternoon, that she thought it fitting that her first official act should be connected with a children's project. Such endeavours as the Thorndon Children's Centre would always have the sympathetic consideration of her husband and herself. Motherhood was a matter of national importance and the mothers of the country's future citizens should be given all the help and encouragement possible. The future of the Dominion must rest securely upon the basis of an increasing population, and the best citizens were, those born in the country. Mr. Chapman, M.P., who occupied the chair, stated that the centre had been in operation for about three months. It had been given a section in Grant Road by the City Council, and the bazaar was to raise money for the building fund. It was hoped to have a kindergarten, creche, and Plunket room. Mrs. G. Hopkins was convener of the bazaar. Conveners of the stalls were Mesdames Kingsbear, Harvey, Stannard, Sims, Coker, Hopkins, Ombler, and Dutton, and Mrs. J. W. Woods was president of the committee. Mr. Hopkins and the men of the committee arranged the decorations in the hall, and Mrs. Robb supplied incidental music.