PATRIOTIC EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1940, Page 7

PATRIOTIC EFFORT

WOMEN’S COMMITTEE MEETS. APPEAL FOR GIFT PARCELS. A meeting of the Masterton Women’s Patriotic Committee was held yesterday afternoon, thy Mayoress (Mrs T. Jordan) presiding over a full attendance of representative women’s organisations. The secretary of the Wellington Provincial Patriotic Council wrote advising that the Wairarapa zone quota of gift parcels for overseas troops was 306.

The committee made an appeal to have this quota filled. A committee room had been requisitioned in the Women’s Rest building, Dixon Street, where gift parcels could be left up to the closing date notified, namely, June 22. Gift parcels comprise the following: —Pipe tobacco, cigarette tobacco or cigarettes, soap (must be contained in' a tin so that the odour of the soap does not permeate the parcel), handkerchiefs, razor blades (Gillette type), writing materials and envelopes, pad, and ink pencil, and a tin of one of the following: Milk, coffee and milk, chocolate, fruit, honey or fruit salts, cake or small cakes in tin, and a tin of sweets preferably barley sugar. The committee advised that a very limited quantity of knitting wool had been received and would be distributed in future by the committee upon application at the depot established at the Women's Rest Room. It is hoped that further knitting wool will be to hand shortly. Material for 400 hussifs and 270 pay book covers was received and distributed to the various women’s organisations represented on the committee to pass on to their members. The recovery date for hussifs is the same as for gift parcels, namely, June 22.