QUEEN’S GOOD WORK

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 15 March 1935, Page 14

QUEEN’S GOOD WORK

Garments for the Poor — Every .November the Queen spends ■ the best part of two days to assist in the work of unpacking, sorting, and arranging at the Imperial Institute the thousands of warm garments made or collected during the year by members of her London Needlework Guild for distribution among the poor, states an English exchange. The kindly charity was started by her Alajesty’s mother, Princess Alary, Duchess of Teck, when her daughter was a mere girl. She took over the role of patroness at her mother’s death, and works as indefatigably for the guild i as she did when she was twenty. It would be something remarkable, ; indeed, that would prevent her from ; attending the sorting of the clothes, I to which she contributes hundreds of I articles, some of them woollies knitI ted by herself. When the} were small her sons were | expected to i. il.e simple woollies such as gloves a. o i-earves for inclusion in her collection, but nowadays, following the example of the King, they give money for the purchase ’of clothing. The Princess Royal also Leips generously, imd her sons send examples of their handiwork. Wearing a big apron to protect her dress, the Queen works as hard as any of her helpers on the days at the institute, and her luncheon is sent from Buckingham Palace in order to save time.