The annual Palestine Fair held by Montreal Hadassah opened yesterday and will continue tomorrow. The fair, which is under the patronage of Viscountess Willingdon, wife of the Governor-General of Canada, was opened by Mrs. A. J. Freiman, president of Dominion Hadassah. Mrs. E. G. Bernstein is convenor-in-chief of the fair.
Part of the proceeds of the Palestine Fair will go towards the maintenance of the Canadian Hadassah Agricultural School for Girls at Nahalal, the only institution of its kind in the Near East, which was established in 1926 by the Hadassah women of this Dominion, with a view to training women along agricultural lines. Remittances will also be made towards the support of the Motza Convalescent Home, the second story of which Canadian Hadassah also erected; the Baby Creche in Jerusalem; as well as to numerous other educational and welfare institutions in Palestine.
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