LITTLE-KNOWN RELIEF WORK

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 1, 19 July 1946, Page 4

LITTLE-KNOWN RELIEF WORK

ALL too little is known of the wonderful work of relief which is quietly going on in our midst all the time, and yet of which the average person remains blissfully oblivious. We refer to the work of our Women’s Organisations who throughout the war years and today with its even more pressing problems, have banded together for the express purpose of sending clothes and comforts overseas. Quietly, efficiently groups of ladies toil from day to day, some in the Red Cross Headquarters building, others at home, through the great St. John movement, through the Women’s Institutes and Galway Guild and the W.D.F.U., Registered Nurses Association and a dozen others. Thousands of garments have been sent by this means from this town. Bolts of material have been purchased cut up and shaped diligently for little ones and suffering ones overseas. In the last Red Cross drive (one month) four substantial cases containing 684 garments were sent away in this manner, most of them new. It would become the townsfolk generally to give more than a passing thought to this remarkable work of mercy going on steadily from day to day in the heart of the community in which we live.