A CHRISTMAS TREE
Yesterday afternoon was a joyous oo casion at St. John’s Schoolroom. The room was crowded with children and their parents, and the nursing sisters of the St, John’s Nursing Guild. All had during the year come in contact with the indefatigable nursing sisters, many as patients, and -the, gathering was by way of making the youngsters happy for Christmas—and incidentally of helping some of their mothers, mrs Hislop, the Mayoress, presided, and she and the sisters called the children one hy one and handed them toys, clothes —all sorts of Christmas joys. Then the mothers of many of the infants took mysterious bundles of clothes and material away, all being presented hy people in Wellington. There was a huge Christmas tree loaded with things that make the heart of a hoy to leap and the eyes of a girl to dance. Soon the room was full of the blare of the tin trumpet, a train that went by itself raced across the floor, there was a babel of small shrill voices, and the glow of bright young faces.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6396, 19 December 1907, Page 5
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181A CHRISTMAS TREE New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6396, 19 December 1907, Page 5
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