

The quality of caring for people was to flower in the 2nd World War, when the Branch played a leading part in the work of the Red Cross, and headed the hospitality list for soldiers, sailors and airmen. Many a young man spent his leave on the Kapiti plains and in the Ulu Hills with the families who farmed there.
Machakos members were always active on Council, and it is interesting that the first suggestion that reminiscences of early settlers should be recorded came from Machakos Branch. Could this have started the Scrapbook project and the “The Pioneer Scrapbook” and “Memories of Kenya’? In 1969 it was Machakos who suggested reprinting “They made it Their Home”, which was soon accomplished.
