Bazaar With A Difference

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27039, 25 March 1949, Page 2

Bazaar With A Difference

Their church aisles needed new carpet, and the obvious way to obtain funds was to hold a bazaar, so the Young Married Women’s Fellowship of the Mornington Presbyterian Church decided to do this, but they also decided to make their function a bazaar with a difference. The main hall will offer all the usual attractions such as home-made cakes, flowers and plants, produce, jumble, and children’s stalls, this last stocked with all manner of toys and dolls’ clothes. An exhibit of South African curios (not for sale) will be a feature of the bazaar. In an adjoining hall is the ” difference,” and this has been called “Wonderland.” The centre of the floor has been converted into a magic pond where children may fish for lucky “ dips.” A tiny stream meanders across one corner, fish swim realistically in its emerald green waters, and its banks are clothed with ferns and hydrangeas. Around the sides of the hall bays have been arranged to represent well-known nursery rhymes. 80-peep is there with an enchanting lamb. Little Miss Muffett sits warily regarding her spider in another bay, while Hey Diddle Diddle with an excellent cow jumping over a startled moon, and all the other characters faithfully represented, is bound to prove one of the most popular exhibits. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary is perhaps the most attractive of the dozen or so bays, but all are works of art, and reflect much credit on their originators. The bazaar will be open only on Saturday afternoon, but " Wonderland ” will be exhibited on the afternoons of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, as well as on the opening day.