CHRISTMAS GIFTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 4

CHRISTMAS GIFTS

CHILDREN OF DIGGERS R.S.A. DISTRIBUTION SUBSTANTIAL DONATIONS Children of unemployed and incapacitated ex-soldiers throughout the district will receive Christmas gifts from the Returned Soldiers’ Association this year, in pursuance of a scheme which the association inaugurated during the depths of the depression and which has been carried on with considerable success throughout the intervening years. No general appeal for support for this scheme is made, but each year the association -eceives several handsome voluntary gifts' of money and toys, which eases the burden on the special funds set aside for the Christmas distribution. This year, for instance, the Gisborne Business Women’s Club has repeated its donations of earlier years, in the form of a large consignment of toys made by members of the club; while the Friendly Circle Choir has donated £2 2s in cash, and an anonymous friend of tire association. has contributed £3, also in cash. A further handsome contribution has been made by men of the railway construction camps, among whom Mr. G. Annesley, of No. 5 Camp, Paritu. circulated a list recently, the total of their donations being £7. The district executive last night expressed its thanks to all donors to the Christmas gift fund, and it was mentioned that one or two further amounts might still come to hand. The Christmas gift committee reported that the purchase of toys ana other items for inclusion in the distribution had been arranged, and that packing would commence on Monday, December 18, at the depot in. Peel street, in premises formerly occupied by Barwick’s Auction Mart. Free carriage of gifts to country centres has been offered, as in earlier years, by transport operators of the district.