KNITTING FOR TROOPS
<>. AGED MASTERTON RESIDENT’S ACHIEVEMENT. A PARCEL EVERY WEEK. For more than 18 months now, Mrs Elizabeth Carey, of Lansdowne, Masterton, has played fairy god-mother to the troops in New Zealand’s biggest inland camp, headquarters of the New Zealand Tank Brigade. Others play similar roles, but not in their 96th year. Week after week despite her years, Mrs Carey has sent a parcel of knitted wear to the Camp Commandant for distribution, mittens, berets, balaclavas and the like, all her own handiwork. Hardly a week passes without the arrival at the camp of a parcel containing up to half a dozen items. Mrs Carey buys all her own wool, and each article is turned out with meticulous skill. The mittens which she knits are particularly popular, as they are made full Inegth with a slit across the palm, so that they can be used either as fingerless gloves covering the whole hand, or as mittens, according to the work the user is doing. When it was learned in camp that Mrs Carey had been presented with a seven volume edition of Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman .Empire” on her 95th birthday, itftj.vas feared that she might be distilled from her work for the troops. But txie fears were groundless. It would take more than seven monumental volumes of Gibbon to upset her equanimity and quiet sense of humour, and her unselfish contributions to the comfort of the boys in this camp have continued to arrive regularly for distribution to a widening circle of appreciative recipients.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1942, Page 2
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