New Guinea Women Raise Big
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Money in Melbourne
THE Melbourne New Guinea Women’s Association is functioning at full blast. With the aid of a donated tea-set, standard lamp, a dressing case, and a great deal of time and hard work, in April and May, the Association raised the sum of £374—a really magnificent effort. Of this total, £2OO was donated to the Red Cross Prisoner-of-War Fund (which has a natural appeal for these women, whose men were caught up in the Japanese invasion of New Guinea), £75 to the ACF, £25 to the Mission to Seamen, and the balance to club funds.
Early in April, a theatre party netted an extra £lO and an Australian tea, shortly afterwards, £l3.
The club sends parcels to New Guinea service men regularly, but, as their sec retary. Mrs. O. Bliss, states, “our great est difficulty is to find sufficient goods to put into the parcels and we shop with the grim shadow of Mr. Dedman hang ing over us!”
No words of praise are too high for these and other New Guinea evacuees, who are carrying on, not only without complaint, but helping where they can, in spite of the fact that their former mode of life has been completely shat tered by war.