SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
For Minc-swaepers and Torpedoed Sailors. At the beginning of last August, Mrs. Niuimo, organising superintendent for the W.C.T.U., throughout New Zealand for work among seamen made an appeal for comforts for the men of the minesweepers and of torpedoed vessels, similar, though on a very much smaller scale, to the one that was made a year previously for tho same cause. As is well known, the men on the mine-sweep-ers have great hardships and great exposure to endure, and the wannest clothing which can be provided them is not too warm for tho trials wliich they are called upon to endure in the bitter northern lattitudes. Often also the men on torpedoed vessels lose all their personal effects, including their clothing, and are left in the soverest straits. The British and Foreign Sailors'.Society, London, has done a splendid work in trying to provide for these men who aro upholding the finest traditions ofm the seamen of the Mother Country, and it was to aid this work that Mrs. Nimmo made the. appeal in Now Zealand, an appeal whioh was whole-heartedly taken up by the various branches of tiie W.C/T.U. organisation throughout New Zealand. As a result of her appeal, Mrs. Nimmo has now ready _to send away 27 cases of warm clothing for these men, some of tho best of the kind which this country produces, fr&sli from the mills which are so well-known for the quality of thengoods. Among these articles are jerseys, sweaters, cardigans, baiaclaves, mittens, socks, pants, underpants, warm shirts, singlets, etc., and in addition Mrs. Nimmo has received contributions in money, with tha result that she will be cabling to Lady Dimsdale, president o,f the Ladies' Guild of tho British and Foreign Sailors' Society, London, the sum of .£4OO. The cases of comforts, it should be mentioned, are being forwarded to the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London, j through the Wellington Branch of the British and Foreign Society, for distribution. Tho valuo of these goods in money amounts to d£9o2 125., so that tho effort made both in goods and money is one that Mrs. Nimmo has' every reason lo be proud of, and could only be achieved by excellent organisation and management, backed_ up by the splendid work of the organisations to' whom she appealed.
One of the responßCß -which greeted the appeal was from the Maoris at Tokomaru Bay. The W.C.T.U. in that place had issued invitations for a "gift ufternoou" for the cause, and among those who were present was an old Maori woman who was keen to know what it was all about. She was told some of the infamous doings of the Germans, and of the courage and endurance of the British sailors, and so interested was she, and so enthusiastic, that she straight away went and pioked all the voilets on her land, and sold them, with the result that by their sale she realised £2 10s. As soon as tho other Maoris of the district learnt what was being done they immediately asked if they might not do something, and said that they too "would like to cable Home" money to help euch a cause. As a result of their effort thoy succeeded in collecting Ml 10s. for the mine-sweepors and torpedoed crews. Sailors' Day. Mrs. Hall-Thompsonj the president of the Navy League Ladies' Auxiliary, has received the • following contributions towards King George's Fund:—The Town and Country Patriotic Women Workers, Palmerston North, .£2oo;' the Women's National Iteservo, Dannevirke, .£ls 155.; tho Guy Fawkes apepal in the eastern suburbs of Wellington, .£l5O. For their stall on Sailors'. Day tho committee would like to remind those who have promised to contribute cups and saucers that they' should he left at 23 Hobson Street not later than Thursday, and also that gifts of produce, work, otc, Bho»ld bo left at Messrs. Harcourt's rooms, also not later than the'above-montioned day. The Mayor of Palmerston North (Mr. J. Nash) and Mre. Nash have been visiting Wellington. •Mr. and Mrs. Watkins' have returned to Wellington from .Christchurch. A stall, whioh should be a very great success' on Sailors' Day on Friday next, is that which is to be arranged and equipped by the Chinese residents of Wellington, and located at the Bank of New Zealand corner. In response to the suggestion made by 'Mrs. Gibbons to the Chineso Consul (Mr. Yue Jackson), tho Chinese to whom it wn3 submitted thoroughly approved of the idea 1 , and have shown tie keenest desire to help tho Sailors' Fund. A substantial sum has been collected among them, and they have undertaken to carry out all the arrangements in connection withthe stall, equipping, stocking, and arranging it in accordance with their own customs. £ilks, slippers, china, ginger, fresh fruit and vegetables in abundance w 4 ll bo supplied both morning and afternoon, and it id hoped that tho stall will be well patronised.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 43, 14 November 1917, Page 2
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