WOMAN'S WORLD

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24302, 17 June 1942, Page 5

WOMAN'S WORLD

CHILD'S CONTRIBUTION

PATRIOTIC APPEAL Pennies from children's money-boxes and cheques of up to £IOOO from various organisations have helped to swell the patriotic appeal in the Wellington metropolitan area. One little girl, aged nine years, no doubt believing that her money would be sent overseas immediately to some needy prisoner of war, addressed the potential beneficiary in person. "Dear prisoner of war," she wrote, "I am sending your & HJd out of mv moneybox. 'Hie rest, is from mummy. J hope you are all right over there and that they treat you all nicely. ! hope you will be coming home safely soon. 1 hope all our men over there are all well. Good luck and God hle.ss you.

Love from Sally Ann." GUN MANNED BY GIRLS Members of the A.T.S. (Auxiliary Territorial Service) in Kngland, who had never before been on duty during an air raid, recently helped to shoot down a German plane. The girls, who were members of a mixed anti-aircraft gun team at a north-east port, bad their claim confirmed by the Air Ministry. They had only recently finished training and. although bombs were dropped in the area of the post, there was not a tremor in the clear directions the girls at their predictors gave to the gun tea m.

SOCIAL NEWS Mrs. Hugh Kasper. Auckland district president of the Women's Christian Temperance I'nion, returned yesterday from Tauranga. Miss Eleanor Hempton, of Sydney, has arrived in Auckland and will later visit her mother, Mrs. M. Whale, in .New Plymouth.