SOCKS DARNED
WORK OF GIRL HIKERS NEW ZEALANDERS HELPED (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, July 8 Instead of going hiking, says the Daily Mirror, girls of the Rambling Club attached to the Church of Scotland, in Crowncourt, Covent Garden, London, meet in the church hall on Saturday to darn socks for men of the Fighting Forces. Soldiers, airmen and even sailors take their worn socks along to be mended by the kind-hearted Scots lassies, many of whom come into London from outlying suburbs. “The men certainly appreciate the work the girls of the Rambling Club are doing,” said the minister of the church, the Rev. Joseph Moffett, lo the Daily Mirror. “At first only the young men of the congregation who had joined up came along. But now the news has got round, and we get complete strangers—New Zealanders and Australians, as well as our own troops. “They are all welcome. We give them refreshments and informal musical items, and they enjoy chatting with the girls.” Mr Moffett is getting in touch with New Zealand and Australian headquarters in London to make the darning evenings even more widely known.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 2
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189SOCKS DARNED Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 2
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