" DIGGERS" FINE EFFORT
-Owing to. the generous assistance of returned soldiers and many friends the Returned Soldiers'" Association this year. .S3B able to assist 130 families with Christmas provisions. In. the original lint of fo,' families the distfib.utioii was as follows:—Joint of meat, vegetables, 601b bag potatoes, Splb bag of floul-1, 21bs tea, 81bs !kugar>2lbs; jam, lib biscuits, 21bs butter, 2lbs •sausages, 21bs saveloys, pudding, cake, toys and sweets for children, handkerchiefs and chocolates for mother, bandkeichiefs and cigarettes for father. Forty: two families received these provisions. Twenty-eight smaller families received the same, except that the quantity of flour given was 251bs and the sugar 4!bs. L At the last moment the names of another 60 families came in. The famous "Smith Family" generously assisted these people fwith gifts which the K.S.A. supplemented .with "'flour, tea, butter, meat, and vegetables. On the day before Christmas' dp ■loss' than eighty joints of meat irere sent to, tile offiqe of the R.S.A., and ajso two Jorry T ]pacls of vegetablefi. ' uTho dißtributfou1 of the goods made a busy eceije )n 'the P'.S.A. office. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 157, 31 December 1931, Page 14
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