HAMPDEN- WAIANAKARUA SEWING GUILD.

North Otago Times, 20 July 1917, Page 2

HAMPDEN- WAIANAKARUA SEWING GUILD.

(To the Editor of "The Times.") Sir—l wish, through your columns, to inform Mrs Forrester, lion, secretary of the Red Cross Society, Oamarti, of the fact that she was labouring under a misapprehension when, on Monday evening last,, in the Ath'enieum Hall. Hampden, she staled that there was no official Sewing Guild for' war purposes in'Hampden. 1 beg leave to contra-dii-t, that statement, The llampdenWaiauakarua Sewing (.iiiiltl for Wimmled Soldiers has been in existence for over two years, and lias been duly ap-proved-of by the Minister Affairs under Section -10 of the War Legislation Amendment Act, l!)l(i, The Guild "is also automatically registered with the Olago and Southland-Women's Patriotic Associations, The above facts are well known to everyone in

■the district—l am, etc., M. C. WATT, President, Ilampilen-Waianakarua Sewing Guild for Wounded Soldiers,