WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2578, 28 September 1915, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Continued from 1 Page 2) Nearlng the End. A large number of waistcoats have still to be returned to' the Town Hall by ladies who have taken them away to make at their homes, and the committee would bo glad if they would return them as soon as it is possible, as they have yet Lo be made waterproof and to get their eyelets finished. Many were again decorating the chairs in the gallery of the Town Hall, placed there for drying purposes, haViug just received their treatment. It is quite surprising how many hands tho waistcoats pass through—first the cuttorsout, and tlien those who make theiu up, sometimes one and tne same person. After that tliey have to be oiled and get the dome fasteners jjut in, and then comes the packing) which is really sheer hard work, as the waistcoats arc done up into packages of fifties and sixty-nvss, pressed down into compact bundles with cardfcoaid and string, wrapped up compio'cely _ in waterproof • paper and finally put into csnvas covorings, so that they look like elongated tales-of wool. Each bale, of coursc, has to bo addressed. One would have thought that the workers would have been glad to see_ the last of the waistcoats, but one lady at any rate is loth to part with them, and said 6he liked making them far more than she liked knitting and sewing. "I shall be quite sorry when they are all done with," she remarked.

.Mrs. Devenish-Meares (nee Miss Annette Turton), of Te Kuiti, left for Sydney on Thursday en for Egypt. Her husband -left with! the 6th Reinforcements for the front.

This evening the Victoria League girls' entertainment for the benefit of the soldiers' Christmas Gift Fund is to take j>laee in the Concert Chamber of the £'own Hall. It is really for tlie men actually at the front, and the league intends to pick out a company and forward their gifts to it.' An excellent programme has beon arranged for- tho entertainment, which will be given in the presence of Her Excellency tlie C-ountess of Liverpool, Mrs. W. F. Massey, Lady Stout, Lady Ward, and tho Mayoress, Mrs. J. P. Luke. Driver Howard and Trooper Marshall (at present 'at Trentham) are contributing scngs; some of.Miss Campbell's pupils will contribute dances, the Victoria League's girls will'give some of their ■charming choruses, and there will be various other talented performers. Tlie cause is a very popular one, and there is littlo doubt that there will be good financial resiilts to crown the league's efforts for the. soldiers.

Eight cases of hospital requirements were sent down for storage at the wharf on Saturday by the Military, Hospital Guild, ready for sending awav with" the next troopships.