PATRIOTIC WORK

Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1940, Page 2

PATRIOTIC WORK

i , The Koiterangi Patriotic Committee will hold a sale of goods in Weld Street to-inorvow for the.general fund. The country effort,is sure, to be \vell supported. The ladies of’the district are making a splendid response in the knitting of balaclavas, and the quota for, the town and country districts is nearly completed. Any surplus will be held over for the next consignment: The following is the list of balaclavas .sent in:—Hokitika Women’s Institute, 15; Mrs Ingram, 9; Nursing Homo; Mrs T.. Wells, Miss Norah.. Wells,, 4 each; Mrs T. Brown, Mrs A. OwepSj Mrs T.. Stuart, Mrs R, ,J. Appleton; anonymous, Nurse Maclem, Miss Bawden ; two each; Mesdames Cleland, Braddon, Ritchie, G. Perry, R. Wells, L. Hagar, Chesterman, Hart and Hoffmann, one each. Pairs of sox have been sent in by Mesdames H; Park, J. Coulson, and Carter, and Miss Bawden, one pair each. The last mentioned also supplied two skull caps, useful under tin helmets. Additional work is in hand with the country Women’s In : stitutes.

. Total: ... ..V £BO7 16 1C i’; Six' cases of gift parcels for the Ist. Echelon in Egypt, representing the quota for Hokitika, Kumara and Ross Boroughs and Westland County, have Keen packed and despatched by the Hokitika - Patriotic Committee, together ivi.th one case of 85 balaclavas, covering the quota of the same areas.

WESTLAND PATRIOTIC FUND. Amount acknowledged previously 520 14 7 Grey Borough Council contribution • 82 16 6 Grey Women’s Branch, Dress Parade 10 11 e Grey County donations ... 6 0 0 Grey Mayoral List 5 2 6 Blackwater Mines Ltd., Inangaliua 52 10 0 Hokitika . Patriotic Com-* mittee, donations 79 1 0 Kokatahi Garden Party 50 0 0 Woodstock-Rimu Presentation Conlmittee 1 0 0