Social Work Fund.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume V, Issue 5, 1 November 1914, Page 52

Social Work Fund.

The Trustees have sanctioned the expenditure of a sum of money amounting to on necessary repairs and renovation of the house m Burlington Road to be used as a Rescue Home, on the recomimendation of the Ladies 1 Committee. An appeal is made for that sum. Contributions, small or large, may be sent to Archdeacon D. Ruddock, Napier,, to cover this expenditure, and will be gladly received by him. During the past six weeks Deaconess Esther Brand has given addresses on the subject of her work at Otane, Te Aute, Elsthorpe, Waipukurau, Puketapu arid Rissington, and at each place the interest aroused is taking' a definite shape. At Waipukurau, where a local committee has already been formed, the members have each undertaken to give or collect a guinea a year, and, as a contribution towards the furnishing of the house, the Mothers' Union is giving a "linen: tea." At Te Aute a "crockery tea" has been proposed, and at Elsthorpe a " dry grocery tea." An address to the Mothers' Union at Port Ahuriri had for its immediate result the offer of a " kitchen tea." Meetings have been arranged for S. John's, Napier, S. Augustine's, Napier, Hastings, Havelock, and Tatadale.. Gifts of furniture will be most welcome — single bed- . steads (iron preferred)", chairs of all kinds, a dining table and small tables, coal scuttles and fire irons, rugs, curtains, £tc, .