More Info →Women's Service League Bagging Potatoes, Opiki

Members of the Women's Service League were each paid 1s 3d (one shilling, three pennies) per hour to bag potatoes on Alfred Seifert's Opiki farm in order to earn funds. They also weeded and cultivated vegetables on a vacant lot on North Street. The proceeds from the work went into a parcel fund and those who contributed could submit the names of servicemen overseas to receive parcels. The parcels were packed at the home of Nancy Smith where her mother sewed each parcel in calico to be collected by someone from the Post Office. From left to right: Unknown, Peggy McMahon, unknown, Kitty Landers, Dorothy Anderson, Nancy Stuart, Joan Brown, others unknown.