ARMY EDUCATION

Evening Star, Issue 24483, 19 April 1943, Page 5

ARMY EDUCATION

ENCOURAGEMENT OF HOBBIES IN LOCAL CAMPS The Dunedin Regional Committee for the Army Education and Welfare Service is endeavoring to help the men and women of our focal camps by procuring for them a supply of certain articles which at 'present the Army authorities cannot readily supply. It is the definite object of A.E.W.S. to make life in camp more interesting and more profitable by encouraging the men and women to use their spare time to the best possible advantage. Hobbies are therefore being encouraged, and it is felt by the committee that the public in Dunedin would be willing to help. In one local caran a workshop for woodwork and cabinet•making has been set up, 'but the activities of the men arc limited 'by their lack of tools. Especially needed are such took as hammers, saws, chisels, planes, and clamps. Additional work benches and vyees are also badly needed. In another, camp the men are. keen to form flower and vegetable gardens. Donations of spades, rakes, etc., would he very welcome. Even old discarded tools could be reconditioned. In other camps men who are keen on good "music are handicapped 1 by the difficulty of obtaining scores of'music of a semi-classical nature, especially music for piano, violin and piano, and for quartets. Any citizens who have any of these materials to spare could show their interest in a practical way by leaving them at the A.E.W.S. office, 206 Princes street (in the Government Life Insurance Building), or by ringing telephone 18-809 to arrange for their ibeing collected. Such donations would toe greatly appreciated.