SEAMEN ENTERTAINED

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 16, 14 October 1942, Page 3

SEAMEN ENTERTAINED

Two dances were ‘held at the Missions to’Seamen, Wellington, last week, and both were well attended. At the nrsi, Miss Betty Williams pro-vidcd tap diiiicing and hornpipe interludes. lootball matches were played on Friday and Saturday, and on Tuesday mght there mis a film screening made possible the existence of the new filin projectoi presented to the institute by the Rotan Club, assisted financially by the MUlington metropolitan Patriotic Lomuuttee and the National Patriotic Fund. Boar • Friends of the mission and otlias.iu Wellington may have noticed tha. sea - folding has been erec ed at .the e. s,t end of the building. This is in ‘-onnexion with repairs to the damage suffered tn the recent, earthquake. In spite of tin., mission has been able to carry o its work of entertaining s< ’“ lucn . 4‘ J ‘ * overseas and coast al bouts In ad 1 tion to entertaining seamen at the I”’ 11 ,n Stout Street, other work is done. MW zines and gramophone records bail. bn. .riven to ships ami news that all but sue of the 120 eases of clothing sent to women it nd children of the bombed areas ot Imy land have arrived safely nt their di.tin.i tion. was received. , Amoiv those to whom thanks nit <!)“ are Mrs? Keeling and the Karon group of the Ladies’ Harbour Lights Guild " “ supplied teas at the weekend

Parcels for Polish Soldiers.

Under the auspices of the E:;»ibmiim branch of the Polish Army League n New Zealand, an entertainment js h ta given in St. Alban s Hull -nt -••> ■ afternoon in aid of funds to provide M 1 parcels for Polish soldiers fighting « 1 their British sillies in L-ioysi. Jhr Mil for Poland, Count Woilzieki. is to b< PH-sm.l, ami ns part of the programme J film of topical interest will be s m Iho screen.