PATRIOTIC WORK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23772, 27 September 1940, Page 13

PATRIOTIC WORK

WOMEN OF ROTORUA The Rotorua Womten's Patriotic subcommittee has been working in the primary school, where the various convenors and their committees have taken turns in the packing of Christmas parcels for the troops overseas. So far over ,300 parcels have been packed, this including the quota for the Taupo district. Girls from the Rotorua High School have been valuable assistants in the work. Pupils in the high school art classes have printed 100 Christmas cards for inclusion in the parcels, and the primary school children have printed 150 cards. At Ngongotaha the combined sewing guild of the Red Cross Society and St. John Ambulance havo added the remaking of . garments for the Lady Galwav Guild to their present activities. Several more large cases of clothing have also been forwarded by the Lady Galway Guild itself. DEVONPORT ACTIVITY One hundred pairs of socks, 39 tins of shortbread and tins of sweets were collected by the Devon port Patriotic Committee (women's activities) for inclusion in the Christmas parcels which are being sent to the troops overseas by the Metropolitan Patriotic Committee. This result was achieved during a week's drive which commenced with a bridge afternoon, where each player donated a pair of socks. In addition to these activities the committee recently sent 84 money belts and tikis to Devonport residents serving with the First and second echelons, a similar presentation having been made to those in the third echelon.