MRS. LUKE’S LITTLE RUB.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1741, 28 July 1917, Page 2

MRS. LUKE’S LITTLE RUB.

WE would be the last to depreciate by one jot or tittle the splendid work done in patriotic affairs by Mrs Luke, the Mayoress of Wellington, who visited Foxton yesterday and addressed a meeting of local womenfolk in connection with the Christmas gift fund for our soldiers and sailors. Some time ago Mrs Luke made an appeal to the Ladies’

Guilds throughout the Wellington district for funds to purchase a motor -car for the convenience of nurses on duty at the Trentham camp —a commendable object. At yesterday’s meeting, Mrs Luke explained the success which had attended her efforts in this connection. But in doing so made an unfortunate, and _in our opinion, an indiscreet, comparison. Mrs Luke said that the appeal had been made to the two local guilds, and the Ladies’ Guild had responded with a donation of £5, but nothing had been received from the Girls’ Guild. Comparisons are odious. The Ladies’ Guild voted the sum named out of its fund. The appeal was discussed by the Girls’ Guild, and it was rightly decided that the Guild could not appropriate money donated for a definite object to any other purpose than that for which it had been given. Hence no money was forwarded for the nurses’ motor car from the Guild’s funds, but it was stated that voluntary gifts from individual members of the- Guild would be forwarded if forthcoming. The comparison was somewhat unfortunate for members of the Girls’ Guild who happened to be present at yesterday’s meeting. Mrs Luke would have been well advised to have ended her remarks by thanking the Ladies’ Guild for their donation. The Fox ton Girls’ Guild has done magnificent work on behalf of our sick and wounded soldiers since its inception—and so have the Ladies’ Guild —and Mrs Luke’s little rub could very well have, been left unsaid from her otherwise . inspiring remarks.