Christmas in the District

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XI, Issue 2, 1 April 1918, Page 94

Christmas in the District

Christmas here was just beautiful. We had a very good sum of money, somewhere about £8 or £9 given to us for Christmas presents for all of our patients. Each patient was presented with his or her Christmas dinner and an envelope containing 10s or ss. I started out early on Christmas Eve morning to do my general work, and finished about 2.30 p.m Then Miss Taylor and I packed hard for an hour or two, packing about eighteen parcels containing either chicken cooked or lamb and green peas, potatoes, and various kinds

of fruit, then Miss Hanclly kindly brought her motor car round, and we piled it up with all our parcels, and set off round the district. It was beautiful to see the happy, excited faces of the old people, who could not keep back their tears at being remembered at Christmas time ; it was worth a great deal more labour than it took. We arrived back m town about 7.30 p.m., tired out, but so happy at the thought of those happy, thankful faces, m the poor, tumble-down old homes.