PATRIOTIC WORK.
NEW PLYMOUTH WOMEN'S COMMITTEE.
The particulars which follow were disclosed by the Mayor at the annual meeting of the Patriotic Committe on Friday evening.. They illustrate forcibly the valuable activity of the New Plymouth Women's Patriotic Committee.
From February, 1917, to September 20, 1918, the committee dispatched goods as follows:
Hold-alls to the number of 1016 were sent. -
The total number of gift parcels was 13.330.
Three hundred and eighty-eight cases were sent to France, containing:—9323 parcels, cakes, soups, sweets, honey, cocoa, fruits, butter, etc., woollen goods, socks, mittens, balaclavas, tobacco, etc.
Sixty-two cases were sent to Egypt, containing:—lßlo parcels, muslin shirts, mosquito nets, undergarments, spirit lamps, towels, cakes and foods of all kinds.
Transport goods for Taranaki soldiers were dispatched as under: —88 cases and 2 crate 3 containing, 11 gramophones and records, 2 harps, 1 guitar, boxing* jrlovec, punch balls, games, cigarettes, 322 cakes, foods of all kinds, writing material, cards, etc. (1 cwt of cake to each transport; some of the gramophones were gift, others were sold heap.) For Transport Hospital:—Soups, Gla:w>, cornflour, Highlander milk, biscuits, etc., were sent. Books for Troopships.—Filled 70 cases.
Thirty-six sacks of vegetables were sent to New Zealand camps.
One hundred and eighty-sis pairs of mittens were dispatched. Thirteen cases of cakes went to the Y.M.C.A., Trentham. Twenty-three cases of gifts went to military hospitals at. Trentham, Fcatherston and Rotorua.
Thirty-one parcels were sent to the New Zealand Wireless Troop, Mesopotamia.
Three cases of gifts were sent to Maori soldiers in France; 7 to Belgians, British Section, France; 2 to the Navy League; 3 to Brockenhurst Hospital; 4 to Balmer Lawn Hospital; 10 to No. 1 Stationary Hospital; 9 to nurses at Balmer Lawn, No. 1 Stationary, Walton-on-Thames, Brockenhurst, Sling and Satisbury Military Hospitals and to New Zealand Volunteer Sisters.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1918, Page 6
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