WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2748, 17 April 1916, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Continued from Pa'ee 2.)

Auokland Women's Enterprise.

The members of the Women's Patriotic Association in Auckland: last week invited the members of the Patriotic and /War Belief Association, the Harbour Board, and the City Councillors to visit them at the Town Hall and see what they were doing in the matter of work for the . soldiers. Emphasis was laid upon the fnot that the visitors would find them simply at .their everyday tasks in. the matter of preparing, comforts for the soldiers. About forty or : fifty of the united members of theso associations took advantage of the opportunity ; afforded them to visit the hall, and they found the premises a pulsating,/ throbbing hive of industry. Ladies in groups of (11 sat round tables, chatting as uninterruptedly as their opportunities would allow them, but never letting pleasantries of the conversation interfere with the feverish haste with which they grabbed a tin of salmon from this pile, a towel from that heap, a tape from the bundle at the elbow, a writing-pad from another place, and another equally useful article from a further point of a carefully ordored collection in tho deft maltingup of gift parcels. The Mayoress made a* speech explaining to her visitors that it 'had been thought proper.that those who had control of the Main Patriotic Association, as well as the ■ public should recognise what the women were doing, and she then invited everyono to make a closer inspection of. and personal experiment in, the task of packing natty iittle tins and packages into a towel or pair of socks, tying the parcel with tape, and finally encasing the lot in a khaki handkerchief tied by the corners. There was no escape, states the "Star." Willy-nilly, the chastened male folk set to work, instructed by the several "captains," who each controlled a team of 10. But for ,the guid-. ance of the ladies the delivery of the parcels .might have caused a riot in the camp, for it is- no fair joke to. unload all- ]am and sardines on to one man and tooth-brushes with insect powder and shaving soap on to another. However, in excellent spirit, the visitorscity councillors, heads of business firms, and Harbour Board members—submitted to the ordeal and afterwards voted it good ffln. ■ At all events Mr. E. A.. Craig (treasurer of the Association) mounting one of the tables, voiced the unmitigated pleasure of the gentlemen at the opportunity afforded them of seeing the work of the ladies, and, humbly confessing that hitherto they had remotely visualised the task of the better-half of the association, i. '