LADIES' BRANCH

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 41, 11 October 1900, Page 30

LADIES' BRANCH

President, Mrs, J. J. Courtney ; vice-president, Mrs. F. Mc^arva ; secretary and treasurer, Miss S. Fuller ; wardrobekeeper, Mrs. O'Reilly. BALANCE BHEET. Receipts. Expenditure. £ s. d. £ b. d. To balance from last By drapery 17 10 0 yar 1R 6 „ boots 18 O Members' monthly „ Balance in hand 2 0 6 subscriptions 19 10 0 £20 8 C ! £20 8 6 General summary of work performed and assistance given during the year : — Cases relieved in various ways, 12(5 ; visits to Hospital, 60 ; Gordon street Home, 30 ; Jubilee Home, 3'J ; Samaritan Home, 10 ; p-or people in their own homes, 80. Goods distributed . — 3,")4ydfi flannelette, TGyds flannel, 78yds print, 60 dresses to women and children, SO pinafores (new and old), 90 parcels of women and children's clothing (old and new), 20 parcels of baby clothu.g. 30 parcels of boys' clothing, GO pairs of boots (new and old) and I LO pairs of stockings, one poor woman and family of four children fitted out with clothes to allow her to join her husband in Wellington, one child fitted out for >St. Mary's Orphanage, kelson, and two children fitted out to be sent to a nursing home in Christchurch. Iv addition to the above, donations of blankets and bedding have been received and distributed to the poor. To these generous benefactors our thanks in an especial manner are due. We desire to mark our appreciation of the prompt manner in which the Brothers of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul attended to our recommendations, and also to thank the Vicar-General, the Very Rev Father Le Menant des Chesnais, S.M.