MARTON NOTES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 55, 6 March 1942, Page 2

MARTON NOTES

W.W.S.A. activity COMFORTS CIRCLE MEETS. On Tuesday afternoon about 36 ladies assembled for service at the Methodist Hall, where the circle meet each Tuesday afternoon to make and prepare comforts for soldiers and refugees. Many and varied are the items of work carried on at the meetings. Already this year a laige amount of work has been done. Four large cartons of clothing have been sorted, cleaned and packed and sent to Wellington to the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild for refugee work and two cartons containing aoout 46 rugs have also been sent for refugee children. A quantity of suitable goods have also been sent to the Division o» Health for use in hospitals for our returning sick and wounded soldiers. Well over 700 swabs, 560 Held dressings, 400 gauze dressmgs for Red Cross work have been made and a number of splints have been padded and covered. Apart from this, surgical overalls and flannel capes have been provided. There are also a number of first aid kits and accessories to be mace for first aiders of the Transport Signalling and Canteen Se-ticrs and a laige quanitiy of dressings, etc., are to be made for Home Guard use To this end the Comforts Circie would wel-| come gifts of old linen gauze, etc. The tops of old socks are also needed. A large quantity of wool has been knitted up and returned. The W.W.S.A. wish to thank all those who have sent in material to be made up for children’s clothing, and these are being made and stored for need in case of evacuation. CIVIC THEATRE, MARTON. “FREEDOM RADIO.” Teeming with action and adventure in every ' foot, “Freedom Radio,’’ Columbia’s new British picture shows Saturday, and Monday at the Civic. Starring Britain’s favourite dramatic screen stars. Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard, who will forever be renowned for that mighty epic, “Cavalcade,” some years ago. the firm deals with the efforts of a small group of students in Germany to convey tlm truth about the ruthless Nazi party to their enslaved countrymen. Clive Brook is seen at the head of the Freedom Station, while Diana Wynyard, portraying his beautiful and neioved young wife, believes in the Fuhrer, and is torn between loyalty to her husband and to her country.