OTAGO WOMEN'S PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16354, 10 April 1915, Page 5

OTAGO WOMEN'S PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION.

Work was carried on briskly at the Early Settlors Hall yesterday. Three large cases and one umall box of - equipment for the Otago men in the Fourth and Fifth Reinforcements were sent to Wellington. The Obago Women's Club sent in a pareel of hand-knitted sooks for the Lady Liverpool Fund, and a friend donated a largo roll of forfar for towels for the men. On Thursday afternoon Miss 'Campbell brought the children belonging to one or two of the classes in the George Street School to see_ fcho kits that were being prepared. Thjir contribution took the form of 69 forfar towels. Arrangements are well in hand for the farewell evening for the soldiers This function is to be held in the Art Gallery Hall on_ Friday, April 16, when it is hoped there wjll be a large gathering of the men and their parents. ' All workers are requested to come on Monday and following days next week as there is a "very large quantity of work to be carried through. It is intended to gtve the men of the Sixth Reinforcements their parcels and gifts on Saturday moramg_ before they leave for Trent-ham. Ihe following fuither contributions have been receivedßelgian and British Fund: From Mrs Allan Holmes, Miss Holmes, Mrs P. Mason, Two Friends, Mornington Committee (per Miss G ccrin), large parcel collected by M. C. I , Mies Harrex, Miss Linson, Miss Kllis, Miss.'Brown, Lady Liverpool Fund.—Dpnations from Miss Hunter, Mrs James Harrison (Hindon), Mrs Holmes, Miss Holmes, Miss Kirkcaldy; Mrs Hentou,' Mrs Martin (Fairfield), Mrs Nixcn, Mrs P. Mason, Mrs Allan (Mosgiel), Miss Waiters, G. W., Miss Cook, Mrs T. G. Young, Mrs Stewart, Mrs Geo. Blyth Mrs Kirkpatrick, Mrs Edwards. Mr 3 Andrews, Mrs Sutherland, Miss Duke-,'" Pupils of Standards 111 and IV George Street School, Mrs Sargood, Mornington Committee (Miss Geerin), Mrs Sutherland (Kaikorai), Port Chalmers women s Committee O. A. Wilson (Roxburgh), Mrs Angus, Mrs ,T. Cook, Mrs Bulterworth, Mrs Bvaithwaite, Mrs C. S. Blake, Mrs Lee, Mrs, Jackson, Miss Davidson Mrs R. Church, Maori Hill School Gniklren, Mrs Barnes, Mrs H. F. Wright. Monetary donations have • been received from Mrs Edmond (10s for wool), Wool 4s, H. ■ M. 13s 6d (Cardigans). Anonymous 10s (Cardigans). - ■The.children of .the Sawyers' Bay School sent- ip- £2 10s for the Belgian Fund, being the proceeds of a conccrt which they held at WaitatK on Faster Monday.