AVOCA LADY MAYORESS'S PATRIOTIC LEAGUE

By the end of the Great War, membership had remained steady in the mid 50s for 1917-18. Over the course of the conflict in excess of 6500 items had been dispatched and £1037 had been raised. Inspection of the amounts raised in the previous three years suggested that the branch had flourished in the early period of the war, when almost £400 had been raised.