LENGTHY COPPER TRAIL FOR GIRLS’ HOME

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 223, 17 June 1944, Page 8

LENGTHY COPPER TRAIL FOR GIRLS’ HOME

The gratifying sum of £Bl/6/7 was raised by the copper trial held on Wednesday in aid of funds for the Levin Memorial home for Girls, Berhampore. The committee is grateful to the public for the generous response, and thanks all who helped with the collecting. The home is at present looking after 14 children, but can take up to 30. ' Gifts for the month from the following are acknowledged with thanks: Sunshine Sewing Circle, Mesdames Finn and Levy, Misses Isaac, E. Young, Jackson, Bainbridge and Sewell, and Mr. R. Greenwood, Internal Marketing Division, and an anonymous donor.

This Year’s Plunket Ball. As usual the Wellington Plunket Ball will be held on the Friday of race week (Julj* 14), and preparations for a record attendance are already being made. The Town Hall will provide a spacious floor setting with the Concert Chamber as a supper room, and there will be alcoves for parties. Prospective debutantes are asked to write to the Ball Secretary. 18 Kent Terrace.

Robin and Co. have a lot.of lovely china just now, some whole teasets, some odd cups and saucers and some very attractive morning tea sets. One of the latter, a set for two with a nice-sized teapot, small cream and sugar and a small plate, is white china with really lovely sprays of apple blossom. Another, the same size, has patches of pale green lattice starred with small flowers in cream, pink and green, and it has pale green handles. One of the teasets—half-dozen —has green rims and handles and a conventional design in pale green on white. A very handsome Htiinmorsley teaset is deco rated with gold and touches of dark blue and pale grey. Robin and Co., 17 Grey St. —Advt.

A smart, tailored blouse of a soft brown, lightweight woollen has the (k'ter pan collar, the band up the front and the diagonal pockets stitched and , fastens with rather large brown buttons. It would be very chic worn with a skirt of beige tweed with a crossbar cheek of brown made with a stitched belt and a zipped pocket finished with a tassel. Agnes Samson, La nibton Qu a J’. —Advt.