FEATHERSTON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1941, Page 7

FEATHERSTON

GIFT OF PRODUCE TO NATIONAL CLUB. ("Times-Age” Special.) Misses Jean Donald and Flora Donald were weekend visitors to Wellington, and delivered a carload of produce to the National Club, which is conducted for men in camp. The produce was donated by the Featherston branch of “the National Party, and was very much appreciated. EASTER HOLIDAYS POST OFFICE HOURS. The Post and Telegraph Office will be closed in all branches on Good Friday and Easter Monday with the exception of the telephone exchange which will remain open as usual. The Featherston-Tauherenikau and the Featherston-Whangaimoana rural mail services will be suspended, The I’ea-therston-Wharepapa service will be run on Thursday. April 10, instead of Good Friday. NATIONAL RESERVE ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the Women’s National Reserve was held in the Red Cross Society’s depot. There were present Miss Card (in the chair), Mesdames Carlyon, H. Cunciy, Halpin, Hunter, Kilsby, Lawson, Lowell, McKenzie, Ritchie, Sharp, Tutbury, Yule and Bloxam, Misses Donald and Viles. Apologies for absence were received from Mesdames Ayre, Arch Clark, Charles, Q. Donald, Shepherd, Wakely, and Miss Eva Card. Letters of appreciation for help on Anzac Day were received from the Borough Council for the selling of poppies from the Returned Soldiers’ Association, and from the medical superintendent of the Porirua mental asylum for the branch’s annual gift of honey. Miss Card was re-elected president and Mrs Bloxam secretary. The resignations of Mesdames Barry and- Rea were received with regret. It was arranged to hold Poppy Day on Friday, April 18. At the conclusion of the meeting Miss Card and Mrs Bloxam provided afternoon tea. Personal Items. Mr J. W. Card has returned from a weekend spent at the home of his daughter, Mrs R. McKenzie, Ballance. Sergeant C. Wendon, who has been in Greytown Hospital since his return from Suva recently, has now returned to his home. Miss Gwenda Wendon has returned from a tour of the north. Mr J. Mutter, who has been an inmate of the Greytown Hospital, has returned to his home.