FREE KINDERGARTEN

Evening Star, Issue 21689, 7 April 1934, Page 9

FREE KINDERGARTEN

COUNCIL MEETING The monthly meeting of the Dunedin Free Kindergarten • !ouncil was held on Thursday afternoon. The president (Mrs D. Phillips) was in the chair, and the following members were present:— Mesdames Batham, Bricked, Ewing, G. Fitzgerald, Glendining, Haggitt, Melville, Shand, Smith, Taverner, Wright, Misses Kelsey, Scott, and Ulrich. The directors reported that the children were now well and happy and attendances much improved. The children at the Hudson Memorial Kindergarten had been very interested in the harvest season, and had visited the baker’s to see the bread being made, and then had helped to make some at the kindergarten. They had also procured fruit at the fruiterer’s and sugar at the grocer’s and helped to make jam. These activities were to end in a harvest festival, when the . kindergarten would be decorated by chains of autumn leaves gathered by the children, and the jam and other gifts would be sent to a local orphanage. The mothers’ and clubs had now commenced their meetings, and interesting programmes had been drawn up. The local committees were already discussing ways and means of raising the necessary finance for the year. The St. Kilda Local Committee had reported a successful garden party at Mrs Arthur Hudson’s, over £2O being raised for that kindergarten. The Hudson Memorial Local Committee had plans well in hand for a sale at the end of April, while the Kelsey-Yaralla Local Committee was organising a jumble sale to be held at the end of the month.

The arrangements for the annual meeting were finalised. The following gifts were reported and are gratefully acknowledged:— Mrs Stevenson, books and toys; Mrs Sandford Cox, cretonne; Mrs Theomin, donation of £3 10s from sale of grapes ; Miss Smith, ball; Mr Doig, upholstering ; Mr Carr, carpentry; Mr Burton, case of apples. Many fathers had done gardening and wood-cutting.