Rangitaiki Women Pack Old Clothes To Send To Europe
The Rangitaikj Presbyterian Church Women’s Fellowship, held a successful clothes drive last week for clothing to be sent to the devastated areas of Western Europe. A generous response resulted in a large quantity of warm garments being repaired, sorted and packed for dispatch.
This appeal is urgent, and letters of thanks received for former parcels show the recipients gratitude. Take this one:
“On the map we found Bay of Plenty and Rivers Whakatane and Rangitaiki, but we are knowing very little about New Zealand excepting the best of all—that there are living there awfully kind people.” Another letter:
“We feel so happy when knowing about your great understanding of our situation, and your kindness to help us.” And again:
“We were deeply touched to hear that good women so far away are thinking of our miseries and hardships and we believe it is the spirit of Christian ideals that makes them do so.”
A large manufacturing firm refused to accept forty tons of coal on the grounds that it was not combustible. That’s another forty tons for household use.—Punch.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 85, 11 May 1949, Page 7
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