KNITS FOR TROOPS AT 95

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 100, 4 September 1942, Page 2

KNITS FOR TROOPS AT 95

WEEKLY PARCELS For more than 18 months now, Mrs Elizabeth Care v. of Master! nn

v>cu\. t y, vji toil has played fairy god-mother to the troops in New Zealand's biggest inland camp, headquarters of the New Zealand lank Brigade. Others play similar roles, but not in their 96th year. \\ cck after week despite her years, Mrs Carey has sent a parcel of knitted wear to the Camp Commandant for distribution, mittens, berets, balaclavas and the like, a>il her own handiwork. Hardly a week passes without the arrival at the camp of a parcel containing up to half a dozen items. Mrs Carey buys all her own wool, and each article is 'turned out with i meticulous skill. The mittens which she knits are particularly popular, as they are made full length with a slit across the palm, so that they can be used either as lingerless gloves covering the whole hand,, or as mittens, according to the work the user is doing. When it was learned in camp that Airs Carey had been presented with a seven volume edition of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' on her 1)51h birthday, it was feared that she might be distracted from her work for the troops. ' But the l fears were groundless. It would take more than seven monumental volumes to upset her equanimity and quiet sense of humour, and her unselfish contributions to the comfort of the 1 boys in this camp have continued, to arrive regularly for distribution to> a widening circle of appreciative recipients.