EXHIBITION DAY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21462, 8 April 1933, Page 19

EXHIBITION DAY

hospital auxiliary OLD GARMENTS UTILISED Thrift is a word that is often used in these days and a practical knowledge of how to put it into effect is most useful to private individuals and public organisations alike. Among the women's societies in Auckland that have mado a study of thrift in all its branches is the Auckland Hospital auxiliary and striking evidence of their success in this direction was to be seen in the work which was displayed in

the exhibition room at Smith and Caugliey's yesterday by the sewing circle, the result of one month's sewing only, totalling about 300 garments.

Out of the most unpromising materials, such as old coats, skirts, ends of wool, socks and stockings, clothing which was a triumph of ingenuity, attractiveness and utility had been evolved, after the originals had been cleaned and repaired. The children's clothing in particular was a marvellous example of what could be done out of odds and ends that are usually thrown away or burned. Most ingenious were the shoes and slippers that were mado out of old felt hats, and trimmed with fur, and most welcome in the coming winter will be the covers for babies' cots, some of which were knitted from long strips cut from old silk stockings and pulled until of sufficient thinness to work. A novel mop was made from strips of stockings threaded on to a long, flat piece of cloth and fastened round a billy lid. Mattresses filled with cut-up scraps of materials and pillowslips made from samples of calico were among the articles shown, all of which are to be given by the auxiliary to distressed familios' in Auckland. An appeal was made to those present for old clothes, especially men's suits, for which there is a great demand. The meetings of this circle a,re held every Tuesday, the convener being Mrs. CarrSmith, the secretary Mrs. L. Howden and the treasurer Mrs. W. Spragg.