PATRIOTIC WORK.
SOLDIERS' COMFORTS WEEK - One. of- the attractions for Soldiers' Comforts Week will be the merry musical Maoris from Waitara. They give a concert in the Coronation Hall on Friday evening next. Already this little troupe have given three performances wjjpin a month, and so delighted were the n.idiences that they had been asked to re?eat both at Urenui and Waitara. Cn Thursday evening the Urenui Hall was again packed with a delightful audience, the proceeds being in aid of the Belgian Fund. Our readers should not miss this, concert. The programme to be submitted is varied enough to suii all tnstes, except the vulgar, and no such item is on the programme. Several jf the items are transposed frr.ni European to Maori, and this transposition improves the melody, and very often gives the song a better swing. Maories are naturally musical and great lovers of anything in the music line.' Their choruses are especially good, whilst the hakas and poi danees'are well worth seeing. It is requested that ail donations, especially of cakes and produce of whicK t'>e Committee inquire an almost un-. limited quantity for the i.'i'kekura Park feie on Mrnday, shaii ha left at the depot, St. Aubyn Su'ret, to-day and early on Monday monrii^. The ' Smokes foi Sold'.crs" Committee will be about to-day and Monday to receive orders from peopb for tins of 'ui'.>l,e. ; tc be sent to luer. at the front: F'.r luico shillings a pur.-el ordinarily costing about Cs (id will be sent to any individual soldier the sender likes to name, or if it is preferred the committee will send parcels under cover to Major Westwi or Captain Fletcher with a re-, quest that they be distributed to men under their command who have not received parcels. Considerable enthusiasm" is being evin.'ed over Comforts Week by the general army of workers, and they are usfidiio;isly lending their aid towards' the various functions. On Thursday between twenty and thirty members of the Carpenters' and Laborers' Unions gave up iheir half-holiday, and the evening also, and attended at the Coronation Hall, where they erected a stage and did other incidental work. The sta?e is a most commodious one, and will provide seating for about 300 children.
The Rod Cross Mart will he open as usual to-day, when a special efl'ort is beinjr made in aid of funds for wounded soldiers, and the Committee are anticipntinc a very busy day. It is intended to make a specialty of cakes, and the Committet appeal i'or cakes of all descriptions, but produce of the usual kinds will also be much appreciated.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1916, Page 8
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434PATRIOTIC WORK. Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1916, Page 8
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