PLUNKET SOCIETY

Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14024, 29 March 1919, Page 7

PLUNKET SOCIETY

SALE OF WORK AND BABY SHOW.

The sale of work and baby show being held to-day in the T.M.S. Building, under the auspices of the Hamilton branch of the Plunket Society, is attract much attention.

The window display is atractive. In one the manner in which a. baby’s bed should bo made is illustrated, while the ether is a mass of beautiful flowers. Many attractive stalls, laden with articles both useful and ornamental, are set out, and good business is being done.

The stalls are in charge of the following ladies :—Work stall, Mesdames Mac Diarmid, Ellicott, and Hyde; basket, Miss Pulleine; cakes, Mesdames Booston and Davcy; flowers, Mrs West; produce, Mesdames V. Chitty, Tompkins, English, O’Meara, Bennett; sweets Airs. J. A. Young; toys, Airs Stubbs and Miss Whitten. Each stall also has numerous assistants. This afternoon a baby show will be held, the entrants in which must have been treated on Plunket, lines.

The prizes for the Baby Show arc a couple of handsome silver mugs—one (presented by M r R. Burns) for baby six months to one year, and the other (presented by Mrs A. J. Storey) for baby under six months. The judges for the Baby Show, for 1 which thirty entries have been re-* eeived. are Matron Rotluvoll, Sister, Brailsford. and Nurse Joyce. Much of the success of the affair is due to,Mrs Melville Bell, the energeticsecretary of the. local branch of the society, who has worked hard to as- ( sure success. She has received help from many assistants, with the result that the funds of the society are likely to benefit considerably. .