RETURNED SOLDIERS' CLUB

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 124, 19 February 1919, Page 4

RETURNED SOLDIERS' CLUB

ORGANISING - THE APPEAL DAT. \ meeting of tho Ladies' .Committeeof; tho Returned-Soldiers' Club appeal hiet in the. club building, yesterday afternoon. . Mrs, C. W. Karle..prc?idcd, and there was a good attendance. Mrs. Coull sent a inessngi? rcgreltins that she con d not attend, and saying that she would <;i.'ani---o Day's Bay, and provide : either a. "stall for'the appeal. day. or else an cnlcrtainniont. . Mw, Htuiielv hoa. secrciary) and- l|rs. Henry Hall (lion, treasurer) . also sent, apologies toi absence. ... . -.- .. Mrs. Olialfield aiinounced; rliat m answer to requesU .for iiVsistnnc-e, sent t<i various'.patriotjfc .Iwilies, fnvtiurablti replies had been iroceiyod. 'from tho. following:—Terrace, Red.Cross, Spinsters' Club Sydney Street" Soldiers'; Olu'ti, Thorildon Red Cross, AVellingtoiv Smitli. Nursing Division, Victoria League,, Enti Patriotic Guild, P'etono .Pjitri.otic Giiild. Women's Natibh«il',;Rewyo..(bvo..stalls), Lady' Literpool' Fund, Citizens' Service Leamie, and 'the YW.C.A,.'.;'..Mrs.;.'TTall ; Thompson, who reproson.twl the. League, undertook- to briiig;;iip the liiattor at the meet-ins and let tho secretary . Ithpw wlia-t they. decidwV to do.. Ifwa-S agreed that the. positions of the.various stalls should be.settled.by ballot at thti conciusion of the me.etin«.. . . ' Mrs. Henry Hall tendered.'her.resignation as lion', treasurer.for,'.t,h.o .Appeal Day, and Miss Amy Kane was unanimously elected to fill the position,. ' Mr.Stott,- lion..'secretary of the.M.en'9 Committee'..[attended,the' meeting,,ji,nd o.n their behalf promised that they would gladly attend', to' .a 11.'.. inh'tters 'ooi'inected , with'the erection-, of Hie.various .stalls. He also told tho-lriecting that the proposed revue, at tho 'Opera,. House .'had been abandoned.as demanding too great an outlay. Instead, it is proposed to libld a'big concert, hi tho Town .Hall on April 5. The.date is arranged so as.not to interfere in any. way wil'h the merchant service appeal. in March..' , ■ Miss .Lawsoii, rcpresenftrig '.the Y.W.C.A.. .said that they would hsive.a' stall, and thalMesilamesAdanis, Bunny, and' Pope had.'agreed,-to organise it. Tho meetins;. nnanimoiislv -agreed to proceed with the shilling collecting cards, all feeling that: every person in Welling-. lon could surely.spare. Is. when it was for the benefit of the- men.who.had beenon active service" abroad. Mcsdames Garter and De' Castro and Miss Fraser were appoinied a snb-com-mitteo.to attend tho -Men's Committee meeting'on Friday evening; and report what is being done.'. .-" •'',■' The drawing for {he , -stalls was as follows:—Winder's corner; Terrace. Ecd Cross; Bank of New Zealand'..corner,Spinsters' Club;; Kirkcahlie and Stains, Sydney Street, Tliorndon Red Cross, and Victoria Lcogne'i'.Wcodvcnrd Street, Wellington South Nursing Division; Boulcott Street,. Hutfc and Potono Patriotic Guilds: Kelbnrn..Avcnne,.. Women's ;Naticual' Reserve, (1); Government Buildings, Women's National Reserve: (2); Courtenay Place, ,Lady Liverpool Fund; Veitch and Allan, 1 Citizens' Service League; Post Office,-Y.W.C.A. Mre. SpotHswoo'd said she would organise a stall at Webb Street,-and"an-nounced that she had been ■ given ■ a dumb-waiter and some old. china for it.