WAIKOUAITI PATRIOTIC SOCIETY.
For the months of Juno, July, and August the ladies have sent to the Early Settlors' Hall: 150 dominion parcels, 90 pairs socks, 2 mitts, 13 shirts, 87 service, hags, 22 handkerchiefs. 21 towels and housewifos. For the British Baby Fund: 5 flannelette nights and 1 petticoat (knitted). To the lied Cross: 6 shirts, 28 handkerchiefs, 2 bundles old linen, etc. Each dominion parcel contains a tin of sugar, lollies, milk, cocoa or coffee, cigarettes, stationery, Ivelcon or soup extract, sardinee or salmon, jam (wrapped in socks, towel, or handkerchief, and contained in a bag). Thirty of these parcels are packed every month by the society, and 20 by young ladies who cannot attend the afternoon meeting. Mr and Mrs Goodlet, with a party of young ladies and children, gayo a snlendid entertainment in Waikouaiti for funds to send Christmas parcels to Waikouaiti boys at the front. About £3O was realised. On Wednesday the girls packed and addressed 55 Christmas parcels to Waikouaiti boys.'
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Otago Witness, Issue 3312, 5 September 1917, Page 42
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167WAIKOUAITI PATRIOTIC SOCIETY. Otago Witness, Issue 3312, 5 September 1917, Page 42
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