LADIES’ PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 10, 15 December 1915, Page 6

LADIES’ PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE.

GENERAL MEETING. A General Meeting of the Ladies’ Patriotic Committee was held on Tuesday evening in tlx© Committee’s Rooirts, Stratford. The Mayoress (Mi's J. W. Boon) presided over a boo. thirty members. A telegram from the Mayoress of Masterton was read, asking the Committee’s assistance in donations for the Christmas dinner for soldiers at Tauheronikau Camp. It was decided to inform the Masterton Committee that the Stratford Committee had contributed to the named fund as far as funds would allow.

It was decided to pay over the surplus money from the Waistcoat Fund to the Lady Liverpool Fund, such fund to be opened in the P.O. Savings Bank in the name of the President and Vice-President. It was also decided to devote the proceeds from the tea days held once a month, to the Lady Liverpool Fund. The meeting resolved to hold a Patriotic Market and Tea on Christmas Eve. Mrs Dixon moved that a letter from the Committee to Mrs G. Sangster in reference to the renting of the C.B.A Buildings be read. It was decided that the letter be read. The text .vas as fallows: —November 17, 1915. Dear Mrs Saugster.—The Ladies Patriotic Committee held a meeting to-day and considered your action in paying 10s a week for Mr Wake’s shop.. The Committee feel that as ybu and Mrs Malone are a sub-committee, you should have consulted them before expending public money on anything. At the meeting it was decided to rent permanently Messrs Hunter and Lyons’ shop, and to hold the Patriotic Market there every Saturday, and on every second Tuesday, to have morning and afternoon tea - instead of every fourth Saturday. Don’t you think that a good.ideal We were all sorry you could not be present at the meeting to-day, as it was so much easier to discuss these matters than to write them. The meeting also confirmed the resolution passed at last meeting not to hold the. shop on November 20th.—Yours faithfully, (signed), M, E. Budge.” The letter was approved by the meeting. Mrs Curtis was elected to fill the vacancy om the Shop Committee caused through tiie resignation of Mrs Sangster,. , ( ft was resolved that the meeting could not support in any, way the sal.'* of work, etc., advertised by ”G. Songster and Co.’,’ to be held on Saturday, December 18th, and. the following days iiinlcs's the whole of the proceeds are to be bunded to the Ladies’ Patriotic Committee in the usual manner.

The President (Mrs J. W. Boon) and Mesdames Good and Budge were appointed to confer on general matters with the Men’s Committee.

The sum of £3OO was voted to the general fund of the Stratford Patriotic Committee. ~ i It -was decided that. no permits he issued for the sale of button-holes on Christmas* Eye- j