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£100 FROM TOYS FOR COMFORTS
A cheque for £100 has
been handed to the Austra
lian Comforts Fund by Mrs.
L. E. Norgard, of Victoria
Park.
This represents the proceeds
from the sale of 150 toy animals
made by Mrs Norgard from scraps
of fur and other fabrics.
Mrs Norgard had never made a toy
animal until last Easter. Then, with
the aid of a child's picture book and
a piece of black fur fabric, she fash
ioned a Scotty.
Jock, she called him, and Jock was
so successful that dogs, lions, tigers
and zebras joined him.
A few went to private orders, but
the majority were sold at Christmas
time by Moore's, who gave a window
display of the toys in aid of the com
forts fund.
Kind people answered Mrs Nor
gard's plea for discarded fur collars
and such. A horse grew out of white
kid, a tiger out of chamois leather, a
lion out of chamois leather with fur
round the neck, and a zebra out of
striped silk.
This year Mrs Norgard will devote
the proceeds of her work to the Red
Cross Prisoners of War Fund. She
has a few orders to start on, is pre
pared to accept more at her home, 42
Leonard Street, Victoria Park.
Gifts of fur and other fabrics would
be welcomed.
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