RED CROSS RELIEF.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 154, 15 June 1932, Page 6

RED CROSS RELIEF.

SPIRIT OF SELF-HELP. SUPPORT READILY GIVEN. All those interested in the Hastings Red Cross Relief Depot, and engaged in working there, feel greatly indebted to those members of the community who have come to its assistance with gifts in kind, and with making ami renovating garments for distribution. The response has been wonderful, and though it is impossible to thank everyone individually it is hoped that each one will accept thanks through the medium of this paragraph. Various sewing circles and Women’a Institutes have done an enormous amount of work in making nightgowns, warm Ruilts, and men's women’s, and children’s underclothing, in many cases providing the material. Others, who are having to ask for assistance, are sewing or knitting in return for the help given, and some are being given material or wool to make things for themselves. Many old skirts and coats of good material, but worn in parts, have been taken and returned in the shape of boys’ pants and girls' frocks. In addition to garments, gifts in kind, cots, and bedding, have tmen given in by those who have no further use for them, and often those who are receiving parcels hand in outgrown clothes for re-distribution. A mother in one home would be glad of a fireguard to keep the small children away from the stove, aud if anyone could supply this need it would be very welcome. Many people, are continuing to make generous gifts of very useful secondhand clothing, and on Saturday an especially large number of parcels were received nt the depot.