Lady Keyes
TRANSPORT DRIVER AND MUNITIONS WORKER ‘‘People in England arc most deeply appreciative of the wonderful collections of clothing so regularly sent by the women of New Zealand for the relief of those who have been bombed out,” said Lady Keyes, who is visiting Wellington with her husband, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes. Lady Keyes was for some time a transport driver in the Women’s Voluntary Services, an organisation started at the beginning of the war. One of her jobs was to drive people who had been bombed out of their homes to the local Town Hall, where they were given, clothing chits and eventually fitted out with all they needed. “It is at these times that your help is so invaluable,’ ’ said Lady Keyes, describing in detail the way in which the organisation of relief is carried out. Lady Keyes has also had experience of working in a munitions factory. She described the hardships and dangers under which people everywhere in London were living, and mentioned that they had lost all the windows and ceilings in their own London home.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 303, 22 December 1944, Page 3
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183Lady Keyes Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 303, 22 December 1944, Page 3
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