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“Helping Others is Object of Toyshop”

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Description: This image was published in the July 16th, 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper.

The caption read: “Toys everywhere… one of the shop’s helpers, Mrs Bette Ireland, had her house turned into a temporary toyland when it was used to store the toys while the shop was being prepared.”

An extract from the article read: “Helping others, helping their community, and helping themselves. That's the three objects of the ‘Toddle-Inn’ community toyshop which opens in Palmerston North tomorrow. The project has been organised and financed by community volunteers and people from the Takaro-Highbury area, with the specific aim of helping to raise funds for their new community centre in Farnham Avenue. No one in the shop will be paid. The shop will be selling cheap wooden toys, and will be in Queen St, opposite Harvey’s restaurant, said one of the people concerned with the project, Mrs Wendy Craig. The Gingerbread House has given $400 to get the shop started, and two people concerned with the project have donated another $400 each. "We had to have $1000 to get the thing off the ground”, Mrs Craig said. Toys as far away as Wellington and Taihape have been obtained, but most of them have come from the Manawatu area, she said.”

This image forms part of the Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection. Unfortunately, only negatives between April and December 1978 are held