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REFUGEE CLOTHING APPEAL (Beacon Correspondent) The Taneatua Ladies Patriotic •Committee had a clothes drive last •week for the Lady Galway. Guild's refugee clothing appeal. The district was divided into six parts and two members of the committee were responsible for an area. Ihe result was excellent. Seven large packing ■ cases were filled to capacity, and a smaller case had to be procured, to take the overflow. All the articles ■were in perfect order and - none could be placed under the category -of "cast off." 1 One case contained men's suits, any of them good -enough for Slate occasions. Others w'efe filled with ladies' top-coats, -costumes, hand knitted cardigans and jumpers, footwear and underclothing, nothing antiquated or soil<ed. t "Many of the ladies remarked that the' refugees would be better and more fashionably clothed than the members of the committee. In many cases residents who had nothing to .rgive bought warm garments as their •donation.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 193, 31 July 1940, Page 5
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156AT TANEATUA Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 193, 31 July 1940, Page 5
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