Good-bye to Campaign Days

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)

Good-bye to Campaign Days

My Dear Sunbeams— I still can't quite believe that Ladder! There are three clubs . . with little over 250 separating them, after one of the hardest tussles for'a ' win we've had for many a year! The last day of the campaign was the : ' :; ' greatest of fun, with more and more parcels, boxes and cases pouring m.M every moment in a great flood, which at one time, threatened to bury PeleriM Pan and myself. Sunbeam visitors peeped around the door and gasped: I "Oh, goodness!" at the piles of quilts. tumbling out of their boxes, the books and toys and groceries and oranges in immense golden piles. (Tin last was the work of the Fantail Club, who had an orange day, and I practically cleared Mangere of citrus fruit altogether!) And then can 1 '0 tell you of the joy of that wonderful packing case full of groceries and It clothes, which "Well-Wisher" (bless her!) sent on behalf of the Two 3 New Zealanders. Within ten minutes of its arrival the contents of that i case were on their way to half a dozen needy homes. The Purple Patches, I too, were a source of great excitement . . . these cheery little girls, who 'M could be distinguished by the sounds of chuckles coming up the stairs, ll arrived in relays, so that hardly an hour went by without a Purple Patch | staggering in with a parcel. Mothers, aunts and big sisters were all pressed H into service, and here and there a lone father appeared, laden down with M all kinds of strange and exciting things. Yes, the last day of the campaign if was most exciting. It finished with a surprise gift from the Starlets of £5, the proceeds of a last Wonderful concert, which was a ringing success. _■ S Peter and I totted up points with great speed, and we found that the Two New Zealanders were being close pressed by the Fantail Club, with the Starlets "coming up the straight" behind. Oh, it was exciting! Well, there is nothing left to say now, but "thank you." Not only i to the big clubs, but to the tiny ones, solitary sunbeams in country towns, H and little troops of three and four in farmland districts. We appreciate your gifts just as much, you know, and all the kmd thoughts behind them, i Congratulations to the Starlets for having led so long, and to the Colden II Kowhai for their marathon sewing bees. / can't forget all the dainty gifts from the Goodwill, and the Lavender Sunbeams, or the amazing work turned in by dozens of other clubs. Oh. dear. I wish I had lots of space 1 to tell you all how much fun it has been meeting you and working with you. Thanks, too, to the kindly and thoughtful mothers, whose guiding hands We can see so often, and to the good grannies who have knitted | » , . so busily for us. 'J Thank you all, dear girls. Best of love from