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Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 August 1915, Page 3

S clearing sale to be hold at Hautere Cross next Thursday is advertised in to-day's Chronicle by Dalgety and Co., Ltd.

A movement is well under way i'oi sending a troupe of Native performers— tea men and ten girls—iroin this district to Sydney and other parts of Australia. Mr Tuiti Macdonald ia the manager of the troupe, which is to leave .New Zealand about the leth of Sep tember. The engagement in *or a season dT three months, with a possible extension. The performers will be chosen from the district between Otalii and Poroutaw'hao.—OtaKl Mail.

An extract from a letter concerning u box of clothing sent privately for distribution will give some ide f i of the poverty existing in Manchester:—"One of the mothers to wham I paid a. surprise visit one morning, with a view to giving her some' clothi/i.3 was giving a baby of eigfil months old its -breakfast. This consisted ot a little bread in a saucer, with hot water on it. No milk—very few families have any; it is a luxury they have been obliged to drop. Coals, g-is aad food have all risen very tnucii owing to the war. The baby's nightgown, consisted of a little bundle

of old scraps of grey tweed knotted round its neck, and another round its waist, and the mother tugged at the straps to try and make them meet over the little bare arms. Two tiny garments hanging on a string too dry were all the outdoor clothes. All the things wcne very clean. . . . About ten days ago with our district visitor I paid a number of calls on' families who needed clothes, so as to oe ready When the bos came. We nave a depot tor providing free dinners %>r mothers. One, very sad case was a woman with torrible varicose veins; her house was bare and poor, but her rooms and children wei'e very clean. She was pibi-t:.lljf'-~tr.;j—e..l itJ 1 --!. , '].a_ a: »■•■