Happiness Club's Tenth Birthday
LITTLE more than 10 years ago Dorothy Wood established her 1ZB "Happiness Club," with the idea of bringing together a number of women to work collectively for deserving causes, The group has now, we are told by 1ZB, a membership of over 14,000; with 21 branches reaching from Nelson to Whangarei. Since its foundation over £35,000 of its funds has been contributed to charitable activities in New Zealand and in addition many thousands of parcels were sent to the Forces during the war. Now the club is sending food parcels to Britain, and raising approximately £3,000 a year for charitable purposes. Its most important single gift was a completely-equipped mobile hospital trailer presented to the St. John Ambulance Association. The directorship of the club was taken over by Joan Sutherland in 1939 when
the membership was 6337. During the centennial celebrations in 1940 two special trains were run from Auckland to Wellington to enable members of the Auckland branch to attend the festivities and the opening of the Wellington Happiness Club branch at 2ZB. The trains ~- carried 870 women and the club paid £2000 in fares. In 1943 the club established the Children’s Transit House which arranges for children of . sick mothers to be ‘sent to private homes for two or more weeks as re. quired. At Oneroa
Beach, Waiheke Island, a large City Mission Children’s Camp has been established by the Happiness Club, and here children less fortunate than others are given annual holidays. There is also a club choir, which is often heard from 1ZB. The>club’s 10th
birthday will be celebrated on Sunday, May 9 ("Mothers’’ Day"), at 8.0 p.m. in the 1ZB Radio Theatre, when the programme will be officially opened by the Mayor of Auckland (Mr, J. A. G Allum).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 462, 30 April 1948, Page 25
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