ALL SAINTS’ HOME

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4402, 9 October 1934, Page 2

ALL SAINTS’ HOME

ANNUAL GIFT DAY. On .Saturday next, October 13th, the twenty-eighth Birthday Party of All Saints’ Children’s Home, will take place at Palmerston North. The Home was opened in Octobej 1906, when the Rev. C. C. Harper was Vicar of the Parish. Many children have passed through the Home since, and it has been of the /greatest blessing to those who have been left orphans with no one to care for them.

An opportunity is afforded local and district people to show their practical sympathy with the institution hv forwarding gifts, which will he conveyed free of charge by Messrs Madge Bros. The Matron (Mrs Bain), who is, indeed, a, true mother in the Home, knows exactly what she needs and she has sent us a list of the things that will he of the greatest service, as follows: —

Groceries, especially oatmeal, sugar, flour, cereals, jam and eggs; coal and firew'ood; towels, sewing cotton (40), garter and boiling elastic; single sheets and pillow cases; boys’ grey jerseys, grey material for shirts (cotton and flannel), and trousers (all sizes); dressing combs and tooth brushes; school stationery of all description; girls’ stockings (all sizes); hoots (all sizes) ; scrubbing and nail brushes, etc.