HOW WOMEN ARE HELPING THE EMPIRE.
THE VIEWS OF LADY MUNRO-FERGUSON. The answer to the call of duty has been made, and made with no uncertain voice, by the women of Australasia, says “Everylady’s Journal” in its second War Number for Women. Along the path which was pointed out to them, Australia's women are trudging cheerfully, ungrudgingly, yet often with laughter that is akin to tears. To-day, in every corner of the Commonwealth, from Government House to the huts “outback,” women are contriving, scheming, planning, working ; and there is no confusion, no useless haste and expenditure of unnecessary energy. Federal Government House, Melbourne, is one o! the “concentration camps,” for it has been made the headquarters ot the Australian Red Cross Society, of which Lady Helen MunroFerguson is the president. At the present time the ballroom somewhat resembles a warehouse. Long tables are packed vyith mountainous piles of shirts, pyjamas, bandages, books, and miscellaneous articles.
While she was busily engaged in tying up bundles of shirts iu the ballroom at Government House*' she found time to express her views to a representative of “Everylady’s Journal.” “I knew that the loyalty and kind heartedness ot the Australians was an assured thing,” she said, “but I did not expect such a wonderful response. We have already cabled .£5,000 to London to be expended on medicines, foods, and comforts, and we have over 20,000 articles ready to send. In seventeen days the League received from its workers 17,738 finished articles, x,ooo mosquito nets, 500 tins of cocoa, 6 gross of surgical sponges, and 2,000 bottles of cordials; and all these things have been unpacked and sorted by committees of ladies. Ten cases ot goods have already been shipped to England; fifty-five more are packed ready to send.” For other facts about the work our women are doing, we refer readers to “Everylady’s Journal” for October. It is a splendid war number for women, containing such articles as “A Woman in the War Camp,” “Sketching on Belgian Battlefields,” “Fashions for War-time,” and. a dozen other articles telling women how to save and make money. “Everjdady’s Journal” is sold locally for sixpence.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1311, 15 October 1914, Page 4
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357HOW WOMEN ARE HELPING THE EMPIRE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1311, 15 October 1914, Page 4
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