War Workers Gazette - A Record of Organised Civilian War Effort in New South Wales
Compiled for the benefit of the War Chest Fund, January 1918. 262pp.
A comprehensive view of the widespread united community participation in providing comforts for the Diggers.
A reward for every person who knitted a pair of socks or a balaclava, cooked a fruit cake or packed a carton of tobacco.
Town by town breakdown of all the knitters and fundraisers. Names of all 43 women of the Lower Hickey Creek Branch.
We discover that Madge and Estelle Levy of Wollstoncraft have made 150 pairs of mittens, news of Patriotic Fundraisers, and the sacrifices of a Red Cross worker lending 2 rooms of their home for a depot etc. etc.
Claims that the only hot drinks served in the trenches was through the donation of 20,000 'Tommy Stoves.'
Overall quite good condition for age.


Estimate $60-100