WOMEN’S WORKING CLUB.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 29 May 1917, Page 5

WOMEN’S WORKING CLUB.

During the present ihonth the members of the Women’s Working Club have made up ready for dispatch over seventy-five parcels of comforts for Taihape soldiers at the v arious fronts and in hospitals abroad.

The contents of this month’s parcel were soap, laces, Keating powder, tin of salmon, soup tablets, tobacco, ciga. rettc papers, Mojo, socks, handkerchief and writing pad. The value of such a parcel if sent by an individual would bo between ten and eleven shillings. To the Women’s Working Club handling such a stock the cost is Ss (id per parcel. From the above it will be seen that the money collected from the public for the purpose is being well spent. Practically every parcel now reaches its destination, and the secretary and members of the club arc in continual receipt of grateful letters of acknowledgment from soldier recipients in Egypt, France, Mesopotamia, Samoa, and England.

The following ladies assisted in the making up and despatching of parcels for May: Mesdamcs Turnbull, Miller, Plummer, Boyd, Bennett, Shorwin, Shute, McDonald, Misses C. McLaugh, lan, M. Coleman, Madge Smith, Bromner, Shute, J. Kevins, K. Kearins, Nurse Merritt (Euanu'i), Miss Kennedy, Sister Brcmner. Nurse Merritt (Huia), Misses Spooner, Stanley, M Spooner.. L. Spooner and M. Donovan.