"CLOTHED, NOT DRESSED"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 150, 14 March 1918, Page 3

"CLOTHED, NOT DRESSED"

WOMEN'S DUTI , IN .WARTIME,

Lady Davidson, wife of tho new Governor of New South Wales, unlike quite a number of prominent women in Sydney, has no ideas on presentrday dress and fashion. She has ideas on women suffrage, but she believes that now is not the time to discuss such matters. She thinks that during the war women should merely clothe themselves—no more—and should make sacrifices in every way possible to prove their sense of tho worth of the sacrifices, being made for them by men on the battlefields of Europe. "I think," she said, "that if women who have money set an example of simplicity it would make it so much easier for women of slender means to manage. Wlicn rich women dress extravagahtly other women imagine they are obliged to do likmvise, and so great extravagance and waste are occasioned. When I passed through Now York I was horrified at the sight of so many over-dressed women, and I could only say to myself, in tixcuso for them, 'They can't surely realise that a waris on.' "

As well as the inportant (from a woman's point of view) sacrifice in dress, Lady Davidson has also niado equally practicable o ies in the matter of war work. She was president of the Women's Patriotic Association of Newfoundland, an assacUtion which had under its control eve/y patriotic, association in the countay. Lady Davidson turned Government House into a huge Red Cross depot, giving up for this purpose the ball, drawing, and bil-liard-rooms, three bedrooms, numerous halls and ante-rooms, and the whole of tlie basement for work-rooms and packing and receiving depots. As well as presiding at weekly executive and fortnightly conveners of committees' meetings, by means of ivhicli the whole network of organisation was controlled. Lady Davidson gave up five days a week to superintending the practical work. "I. did this," f-he said, "more as an example,than anything else, for I felt that if I did not show that I wa3 willing to make sacrifices and throw myself heart and soul into the work, I. could not expect my helpers to do so.

The Executive Committee of the Lady Liverpool and Mrs. Fomare's Maori Soldiers' Fund express their appreciation for tic handsome donation of MOO large tins of cigarettes from the Citizens' Gift li'und, also £63 Is. from the Natives and settlers of iNiue Island; B'pairs mittens, 3.1 mufflers, 140 pairs socks from the Hukarere School girls, who have worked so well ever since war broke out; 3 large cases containing 410 bundles of dried bauaiiat from Natives of Maukc, Cook Islands, and the many donations from the dilforent committees. • , ■* The soldiers in King George V Hospital at Botorua gave £50 to the ltotorua Church Army Hut i'tind, and organised a military gala which brought in an additional £132 11s. Sd. The residents were .out for: £500 for their Hut, and obtained £600. A deputation of lifteen .Maori women waited on the secretary.. -Mrs. Carter, representing several committees from Hinemoa Point to Te iNgae, saying that n lvagbnload of produce and fowls had been collected for the fund., which afterwards realised £16. Two picture companies each gave the proceeds ,cf one night's entertainment lo the Uotorua Hut. : The lion, secretary of. the Overseas Club at Lower Hutt has been enabled through the proceeds\.of tlm sale of "St. JUuustan's Candy Book" and donalions'(of which a list is subjoined) to forward to headquarters the sum of £200 for the benefit, of St. , Dunstan's Hostel for Blind Soldiers and Sailors. The list of contributors is as follows:— Wellington Girls' College, £50; Hutt ]Joy Scouts, £2 12s. Ud.j'the Mayor of'Hutt, £1. Is.; and a sale of work by a. few'girls of the Hutt.School, £o 2s. Bd.; sale of "Candy Bool;," £111 3s. 7<l.

The followinc;' subscriptions were acknowledged at 'the last meeting of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children:—Gear Meat Co., 10s.; Mrs. H. I). Crawford, .10s.; U.fc'.C, 10s;; Wellington Bread Co., 55.; Mrs. F' Grady, 55.; Mrs. Barraud, os.; Mrs.' Wright, 2s. 6d.

Mrs. ■'■Tj'irth, hon. treasurer of the Wellington Women's J-ied Cross Comniittes, acknowledges the following contributions and subscriptions:—Mrs. IT. Rose, 2s. 6t1.; Miss Kent, 2s. 6(1.; collection box in depot, 'Is. 3d.; Miss Sybil Nathan, 10s.; Mrs. Moorhor.se, £1; Mrs. B. Hunter, £2; proceeds of concert, s.s. WtfStralia, £3 4s. Gd.; Hataitai Bowling Club,' £3 ]3s. 10d. (proceeds of picnic); 'Wellington Military Service Board, £4; Mrs. W. Reid, 55.; Ohau lied Ch-oss Guild (Mrs. Best), £2 1&. (kl,; Ohariu Red Cross Guild (Mrs. L. Bryant), £5 4s. ••

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