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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7068, 30 January 1933, Page 2

THE QUEEN’S PRACTICAL INTEREST. The Queen’s practical interest in the work being dono for the familios of the unemployed was strikingly revealed recently. At the Palace she has built up a complete organisation for the making and collecting of articles of clothing, and she has herself spent many hours knitting scarves for poor Lancashire women and fishcrfolk. The facts were made known when the Queen visited the headquarters of the Personal Service League, in Grosvenor Place, S.W.

The Queen is patron of tho league, and has taken a very active part in its work, which has grown up now into a tremendous organisation. Sho has already been to one of the branches— Lambeth —and on another day she spent an hour and a-half at the central depot, which receives more than 1000 articles of clothiing a day, and where many hundreds more aro made by society women.

Sho took with her two bales of clothes from tho Palace, and a parcel of scarves. Sho asked that ono of her own articles should be put in each parcel sent to the distressed districts.

Tlio Queen -went into every room in the two buildings now needed for the headquarters. She went up to the fifth floor and talked to a number of women knitting garments of all kinds, and she inspected the types of clothes which are being sent from homes all ovei London in greater numbers every day. She was particularly interested in the system of grading these clothes and household articles according to tho type of people they were being sent to.