RECENT ACTIVITIES

Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21664, 26 February 1942, Page 3

RECENT ACTIVITIES

WOMEN’S PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE At a fully representative meeting of the Hamilton Women’s Patriotic Committee held recently and presided over by the chairman, Mrs H. C. Ross, the activities of the committee were reviewed.

Mrs Ross spoke of the excellent work done in packing approximately 1000 parcels for overseas, for which many letters of thanks have been received, of the 55 parcels hurriedly packed on New Year’s morning for men at Arapuni and Horahora, and of the effort in raising £75 for comforts for the men of the National Military Reserve. With this £75 two radios had been purchased and a large number of parcels dispatched. “It is gratifying to learn,” said Mrs Ross, “that our nurses on the hospital ships also received parcels on Christmas morning.”

The binoculars appeal had been well answered and a request from Colonel McFarland for 600 hussifs had been expeditiously complied with. A bolt of calico left at the Patriotic House had all been taken by willing women to make into pillowslips, which another member had offered to launder. A vote of thanks was passed to the public-spirited Hamilton resident, who, on his birthday, had given an opal pendant to the Patriotic Committee to raffle for patriotic purposes. Appreciation of the work of the Women’s Auxiliary Volunteer Corps in entertaining 110 merchant seamen recently was placed on record.

In future the newly erected patriotic shop in Garden Place will be open thrice weekly, and offers from organisations to stock and man it, will be gratefully received by the Patriotic Committee.

The importance of the manufacture of camouflage nets was emphasised, and Mrs J. Ward Chapman explained that this was a war work which could be undertaken by all women, either at the Women’s War Service Auxiliary office in Ward Street, where there are da;ly demonstrations of the method, or at their own homes. The meeting concluded with an address by Miss Elsie Bennett of Auckland.