STREET AND SHOP DAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 276, 22 November 1945, Page 2

STREET AND SHOP DAY

RESIDENTIAL NURSERY APPEAL. There was a good response yesterday to the appeal to establish a Town and Country Residential Nursery in Wanganui, the amount raised being within tne vicinity of £lOO. The shop day held in the Red Cross Room was well patronised and goods hardly reached the stalls before they were sold. The delectable sponge cakes, shortbread and pikelets met with a quick sale, as also did the dressed poultry, eggs and other produce brought in by the country women during the morning and early afternoon. The idea of establishing the residential nursery originated with the Forde] 1-Mangamahu branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union of which Miss Macdonald is president. The Wanganui Mothers’ Helpers’ Society, whose work in providing helpers for sick mothers is well known, was enthusiastic about the scheme and undertook the street collection for the good cause. The public were most sympathetic and many women told collectors that they thought it was a most practical and welcome project. The shop day was the country women's effort and the members of the Fordell - Mangamahu W.D.F.U. were assisted by the Okoia, Westmere and Mangawhero branches. As well as all kinds of produce, there were flower and jumble stalls.