RARE GALLIPOLI CAMEL IN NEW ZEALAND STOCKING TOYLAND

 

During WWl , patriotic women in Christchurch, New Zealand, started the Stocking and Handiwork Guild to make toys from odds and ends , proceeds to go to the needy and the Kindergarten Association. A report in the Canterbury Times in December 1916 said it was wonderful what could be made from old stocking tops, rags and patches . A beautiful cat had been made from an old hot water bottle ; a true to  life camel had been made from an old pair of puttees sent from Gallipoli . A puttee was a  protective length of  cloth wrapped around the legs of soldiers  from ankle to the knee. Other toys made included golliwogs, sambos, cats , elephants, rabbits , teddy bears.