OTAGO WOMEN'S PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16589, 12 January 1916, Page 3

OTAGO WOMEN'S PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION.

The St. Clair branch of the Women's Patriotic Association will open again on Thursday at tho Congregational Hall at 2 o'clock, as usual. As the branch is practically self-supporting, the committeo will be most grateful for donations of money and material, so that tho contributions both to tho kits and ambulance, also Belgian relief, may be kept up. ■' Work will be resumed by the North-fiast Valley Women's Patriotio Association on Thursday afternoon and evening. As there is much urgent work to be done, it is hoped that a good start will be made. A Hastings soldier who has just returned home from Gallipoli, in conversation with several of his friends, says that the people of New Zealand do not realise what awful hardships the troops go through. Dysentery is ono of tho worst kinds of sickness the men have to put up with, and ho had seen some terrible cases of this. The suppliers at tho Mataura Dairy Factory gavo a day's milk last month to tho war funds, which resulted in the sum of £103 being raised, of which amount £100 was cabled to Sir T. Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand at Homo. The balance will be forwarded by letter. The money is to be distributed among the New Zealand soldiers in ]&sdand who require assistance.