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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 60, Issue 4307, 21 July 1950, Page 2

HOME AND COUNTRY

INSTITUTE HAS A FULL DAY

GATHERING AT WAITAKARURU

Waitakaruru Women’s Institute held its monthly meeting in the hall 1 on July 12 when there was a very satisfactory attendance. The president, Mrs J. Pacey, was in the chair and the ode had been sung by all and the aspirations read by Mrs N. Hedges, Mrs Pacey, in her bright, happy style, welcomed a number of new residents, who had received special invitations to be present in order to receive a welcome from their sisters in the district.

As the meeting was to be mainly social, business was put through expeditiously. Two letters of appreciation were rceived in acknowledgement of parcels sent to England but there will not be many more letters now that the sending of parcels has come to an end. The president of the federation, in her monthly letter, asked all members to collect useful clothing for CORSO; and as Mrs J. Allen announced that she had been given some garments for the institute |x> sell, It

was decided to use them for CORSO instead. Members throughout the federation are being asked to collect historical data for a history of the Thames Valley area which is being compiled at Thames. As the secretary of the Dominion federation, Mrs Horn, is return from her position, she is to be given a presentation on behalf of all the New Zea, land institutes, so the Waitakaruru institute decided to send a donation towards the presentation. The president commented on the really huge task which the institute had carried out, ever since 1939 in collecting money for parcels for both New Zealand boys.at the front, and for civilians in Great Britain and also in packing and sending off all the parcels. She stated that the amount of money raised for that purpose was truly surprising and she called for a vote by acclamation for all those who had worked' so faithfully. ■ As a special gesture to a young member, Miss Marice Coxhead, who has always worked loyally and unselfishly for the institute and who is standing as sports queen in the Waitakaruru carnival, it was decided to donate the proceeds of a special stall at the August meeting to her carnival funds. After the luncheon adjournment Mrs Laing gave a short account of the recent group meeting held at Ngatea after which the meeting took the form of a party in honour of the invited guests.

There was a short programme of items as follows:—

Pianoforte solos by Mrs Chas. Coxhead: humorous recitations by Mrs Skinner. \

A competition: “Articles to be found in a grocer’s shop” was won by Miss Marie Coxhead. A competition arranged by Mrs Cropp was won by Mrs Hedges, the prize being a warm pair of men’s sox made by Mrs Cropp on her own knitting machine.

A prize was awarded to Mrs Cropp for an exhibit of a very handsome American doll’s house surrounded by animals on a green lawn.

The floral competition, which was for any arrangement of winter dried materials from the garderi, was won by Mrs Hegh with Mrs J. Laing second. For the best bloom Mrs Otter was first, Mrs A. Coxhead second, and Mrs Cropp third.