When knitting socks for the troops some women make a point of knitting small squares in the same coloured wool and attaching these to the socks. Then when the socks become worn their service owners have only to persuade some good-natured soul to darn in the readymade patch.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1942, Page 2
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