Halifax & District Women’s Day

From the Halifax Courier, January 5th 1918

HALIFAX & DISTRICT WOMEN’S DAY

The Halifax and District Women's Day was held on Saturday, September 29,1917, with the object of raising a fund for the benefit of the Y.W.C.A. War Charities work in connection with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.  For many months thousands of women and girls have undertaken all kinds of non-combatant service in the Base Camps of Flanders, and France, and, therefore, it is the obvious duty to do all in our power to minister to the moral and material welfare of these brave women who are enduring much and living under strict Military discipline.  Through the generosity of the people of Halifax and district the amount has now reached the sum of £420 2s. 7d.  The treasurer, Alfred Morris, Esq., joins me in expressing our grateful thanks to all those who have helped to raise the fund.  Although the balance-sheet must need be published, it is the great desire of all who have taken part in the "Women's Day" that the full amount required to build the Hut, £500, should be realised, therefore, they hope that some who have not yet contributed will do so, and in order that a Hut in France may bear the ancient and honoured name of “Halifax.”— Believe me, yours faithfully,

HATTIE S. FISHER-SMITH.
The Gleddings, Halifax.

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