SERVICE CLUB

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1943, Page 2

SERVICE CLUB

OPENED IN MASTERTON AMERICAN RED CROSS ORGANISATION. APPEAL FOR WOMEN HELPERS. The American Red Cross Service Club will be opening in Masterton in the near future. The club is located in the building recently occupied by the furniture department of Messrs. W. E. Cody, Ltd., Queen Street, near the Fire Brigade Station. The object of the club is to provide recreational facilities and entertainments, and also food prepared and cooked in the American manner, for men of the Allied services.. The opening of the club will provide the women of Masterton and district with an admirable opportunity of showing their hospitality to visiting servicemen from overseas, and a large band'of helpers is required for canteen work, as dance hostesses and in other ways. As the club will be open daily from 7 a.m. to. 11 p.m., several hundred helpers will be required for running the canteen. Those wishing to assist are invited to give their names and addresses to the club next week so that a register of all helpers may be compiled. The club director, Mrs. Tom Learmont, who is a member of the-staff of the American Red Cross, wishes to express her deep appreciation of the generosity of residents who have given furniture for the lounge and states that she is very pleased to be in Masterton, as every assistance is being willingly given to her in her work here. She points out that any New Zealand soldiers in uniform will be welcomed at the club.