RED CROSS NEWS SEPTEMBER,STREET DAY Miss Kathleen M'Lean (dugout convener) and her committee continue the arrangements and working, bees for the September 12 street day appeal. Quantities of hand-made novelties and household. articles have been made for sale. A special feature of this year’s effort will be the flower stall, where Victorian posies, primrose baskets, hospital boxes, and cut blooms, as well as garden plants, will be obtainable. We wish to further remind our many country friends that saleable gifts niay be sent in any time - now' to ‘"the secretary’s office, second floor, Queen’s Building. North-east Valley Branch. At the annual meeting of this branch the following ' office-bearers were elec- ted .—President, Mrs N. Oakley; vicepresidents, Mesdames Rigby and Bycroft ; secretary, Mrs P. Garden; treasurer, Mrs Ansell; buyers—Mesdames Ansell, Williamson, and O’Brien; committee—Mesdames Wright, Neilson, Laing, Nottman, and Walls. Crochet Wool Hospital Slippers. Materials.—lo skeins rug wool, 1 No. 7 Inox crochet hook, 1 pair woolly-lined leather soles. Measurements.—No. 8 shoes. Tension.—3 double crochet and 3 rows to one inch. First Row. —Work 13 chain, allowing 1 chain to turn, work 1 double crochet into each chain, turn 1 chain. Second Row.— 1 d.c. into front loop of each double crochet, turn 1 chain. : Third' Row.—2 double crochet into front loop of Ist. double crochet, 1 double crochet into hack loop of each double crochet, until 1 remains, 2 double crochet into back loop of last double crochet, turn, 1 chain. Repeat last two rows until 26 double crochet. .Repeat 2nd row once. Next Row.—l double crochet into back loop of 9 double crochet, 6 chain, 1 chain to turn. Next Row.—l double Crochet into back loop of 6 chain, 1 double crochet into front loop of 6 double crochet. Repeat last 2 rows 17 times. Slip stitch the 9 double crochet to 9 double crochet oil opposite side of instep. Work one row double crochet around piece to turn back. Work one row double crochet round entire slipper, sew to sole with strong thread. Thread a length of elastic around ankle and turn back 1 inch for turnover. Acknowledgments. Headquarters wishes to thank the following for goods and donations re* coived during the week:—Mesdames Chapman, Johnston, Haigh, Barclay, Knapp, Black, Macgregor, Shaw Thompson. Slack, Vivian Jacobs, M. Smith, M'Lennan (2), A. Watson, Stewart (Reid road), Misses Joan M'Kinnon, E. T). Lowe, Mowat, Burn Macpherson, Betty Reeves, M'lver, Geddes, Stewart, M'Lean, Colinswood Club (Macandrew Bay), St. Matthew’s Guild, Anonymous, South Dunedin Presbyterian Church Guild, Two Friends, Red Gross Group of the Technical College; sub-centres—Broad Bay, Opoho, North-east Valley, Concord, Milton, Poolburn, Wanaka, Maeandrew Bay.