Interhouse Dance Tonight.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1943, Page 2

Interhouse Dance Tonight.

The Wairarapa Interhouse Association will hold another of its popular dances in the Masonic Hall, Masterton, tonight. The music will be supplied by Mrs Ashton's Orchestra and novelty dances will be held. Distribution of Comforts. Comforts distributed free to the New Zealand Forces in North Africa in March by the Y.M.C.A. on behalf of the National Patriotic Fund Board weye valued at £3.000, according to a cable message received from Mr H. J. Steptoe, Acting Y.M.C.A. Commissioner in the Middle East. The distribution included canteen goods, writing paper, books and magazines. The message added that the Y.M.C.A. establishment was 58, and that all the staff were well. Ingleside. The Wairarapa Caledonian Society will hold its first social gathering of the season in the Masonic Hall, Masterton, on Monday evening next at 8 o’clock. A feature of the function will be a rendering of Scottish items by Pipe Major Murdo McKenzie, who won the world championship for piping at Inverness in 1898 and at Oban in 1899. Major McKenzie is still among the foremost in the world class and no doubt members of the society and their friends will be very pleased of the opportunity of hearing Major McKenzie. Civil Defence Films. A series of civil defence films, which have just arived from England and America, were screened in the social hall, Parliament House, yesterday, afternoon to an Interested audience which included the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, and several other Ministers of the Crown. The films show the American version of a warden’s duties before and during a raid; the functioning of a control-room in England during a raid, and the changeover to a reserve control centre when the main centre is damaged; the duties of fire-watchers and spotters and the methods of handling both the old and new types of incendiary bombs; the identification of war gases in a practical and easily remembered way, and the cleansing of an area contaminated by a gas bomb. Knitting Wc‘ol. To cope with the requirements of the armed forces, both in the Dominion and overseas, an ever-increasing supply of comforts requires to be knitted from the knitting wools now reaching the local distribution depot, not in pounds, but in bales. This week alone nearly two hundredweight of wool has been received for distribution. The Patriotic Committees gratefully acknowledge the unremitting effort of all those women who, banded together in this great work, continue with unabated energy to knit for soldiers the woollen comforts so essential for their well-being. An appeal is now made to all knitters who, in the past, have not perhaps given this continuous service, to link up to accelerate the knitting output in this district so that the bales of knitting wools now arriving every few days may not be retained in storage, but may be immediately distributed throughout the district to fill the requirements of a larger band of patriotic knitters.