WOMAN'S WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 115, 1 February 1918, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

(Continued from page 2.) RED CROSS SHOP PAST AND FUTURE OPERATIONS A meeting of the' Wellington Red Cross Shop Committee was held in the Mayor's room of the Town Hall yesterday, at which the report of the year's Writ from December 12, 1910, to December 14, 1917, was presented , . Yet another matter which formed part of the business of the meeting was the election of members to the committee upon the General Committee of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Red Cross organisation. Mrs. Luke presided, and as Mrs. Firth flion. secretary of the Red Cross Shop Committee) was unable to be present she was represented by Miss Wheeler. The annual report presented to the meeting stated that the shop opened , on December 12. 1916, in Messrs. Kirkealdie and Stains's Buildings, 125 Lambton Quay. The room proved a, most suitable one, and the success of the venture, winch has just completed a, year's work, has been one of material help for our sick and wounded soldiers. Tho Miramar Ladies' Golf Patriotic Cake Boom undertook to pay the rent of the shop for six months. This was a great encouragement to the committee, and put the undertaking on a safe foundation. The shop has been open every Tuesday for the sale of flowers and cakes, and! Friday for general market sales.

The work of supplying produce of every description, home-matte cakes and sweets, and hand-made embroiderins has been entirely voluntary, and carried out by women from districts and clubs and societies in and around Wellington. The Misses Cooper and Moss, who from the start of the war have devoted their time to the sale of flowers and dainty reedlework, offered to join in with the shop, provided a monthly donation of £20 (since raised to £25) be sent to Lowry Bay Convalescent Hospital. This offer was heartily welcomed, and during the year these ladies have contributed £629 to the Red Cross Fund of the shop. The Misses Veitch (Claremont Grove"! also offered to send a weekly supply of homemade sweets, which has proved an attraction and been of great assistance to the fund.

Those who Tiave devoted the'r thought and time to the work- and undertaken virions Red Cross Shop days are:— The Wellington Women s National Reserve, Hobson Street and Hobson Cresce'nt ladies, ■ Catholic Knitting Guild, Spinsters' Club. Miramar Ladies' Sewing Guild, Day's Bay ladies, Kelburn Croquet Club, Thorndon girls, The Terraces, Mrs. Massey's Thorndon Committee,, N.Z. Natives' Association., Mercer Street Depot workers, St. John Ambulance Nursing Division, Mrs. Tweed and Mrs. C. Pearce, Miss MacGregor (Karori), Wellington College boys, Mrs. Cornish and Mrs. Fuller (Seatoun), Victoria League, Kapiti district. Very great help has been given by the Kapiti district,' and the four country days, which were filled with interest and eagerly looked forward to, proved most successful. The Women's National Reserve took one Red Cross day a month, allotting the work to various districts, viz.: Wellington Central, Kelburn. Karori, Wadestown, Jnlmsonville, Brooklyn, Island Bay, Lyall Bay, Hatnitai. South Kilbirnie North Kilbirnie. Wadestown W.N.R. also took a cake clay, on Tuesday once a month. From the efforts of these districts, all of which took tho very keenest, interest in the work, a very considerable sum was added to the fund.

Valuable arid rare articles have been given for the benefit of the cause; and by'the permission of the Minister of Internal Affairs these articles wero disposed of by raffle. Many ladies gavo their time and energy to this branch of. the work. Donations of money and contributions of saleable 'goods r.nd gifts for the comfort and welfare of the shop work have been received, and the commits tee desires to nlaco on record its grateful thanks and appreciation to all who have'in so many ways assisted to inako the year's wort a success. The balance-sheet.' which has been prepared by Mr. T. Bush, lion, treasurer, shows that £10,775 has been collected and forwarded for the benefit of New Zealand pick and wounded soldiers from the efforts of the Wellington Red Cross Shop. The shop will reopen on February 15, 1918,_ with a country'day, , and the committee appeals to the public for the same sympathy and help for the work as has been given in the past year. The new shop is located in No. 148, just opposite the site of the' place . just recently vacated by the committee. Mr. T. Bush, hon. treasurer, presented the balance-sheet for the period of seven months ending December 31. The receipts .showed: To balance Juiie 1, 1917, £19 Bs. 7d.; donations and cash sales. .£8948 Is. Bd.; discounts, £4 16s. 10d. Payments are as follow: "Our Day" 'appeal, £2750; returned sick and wounded New Zealand soldiers, £3000; sick and wounded soldiers at the front. £2800: Taumaru Military Hospital (Lowry Bav), £220; rent of shop, £84 10s.;'sundries, £73 13s. 7d.; balance in the Bank of New South Wales, £39 3s. Gel. The balancesheet for the year will be published later.

The report and balance-sheet wero adopted. A letter from the manager of_ the Wellington Gas Company was received, offering to instal.a gas cooker in the new premises gratis. This offer was gratefully received 'by the mei'ting. Further correspondence ; was read in regard to' money that had been remitted to the London organisation of the New Zealand branch of the British Red Cross, receipt. In pursuit of the agreement that had been arrived at between the Red Cross Shop Committee and , the General Committee of the Wellington Red Cross organisation that there should in future Hs equal representation on the General Committee, six members were elected as representing the shop on the general body, viz.. Mcsdames Firth, Adams, Elder (subject to consent), M'Vicar, Duthie, and Porter, those being in addition to tho three ladieswho already represent the Shop Committee, making in"all nine Red Cross Shop representa-

It was stated at the meeting that the soldiers at tlie Tiuimaru Convalescent TTome would be taking over t"heir part of the new shop very shortly, and would pay £1 a week towards the rent.. There are still two rooms to let in the shop, hut it is not anticipated that there is likely to be any difficulty in that respect. Why advertise if you are so busv? How often is Miss Milsom asked. She advertises because ehe will stand by anything she says in her advertisements. How could any woman carry ju so long unless she had the merit, science, and knowledge? Come to Miss Milsom to bo put on the right path. It is so easy to mislead, but Miss Milsom dues not. She has a first-class establishment to keep up, and her preparations are dispatched from there. You have someone of standing to refer to. Not a po3t office box or an obscure address in a distant land. Call or write re liair, hair troubles and hair work, 6kin and complexion, delightful face massage,_ ehampooing, clipping, staining, manicuring, electrolysis. Mi6B Milsom, opp. Shortt's Piotures, 91 Willie Street. Telephone 814. For Children's Haokinp Qauqh. Wood's Cheat Peppermint Core,*