WOMEN HONOURED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 10

WOMEN HONOURED.

KING'S BIRTHDAY LIST. Six women, including two Aucklanders, are in the list of Birthday Honours. 0.8. E. To receive the order of 0.8. E. is Mrs. Lucinda Wilson, wife of Mr. W. R. Wilson, of Takapuna. For many years Mrs. Wilson has taken an active interest in the social and philanthropic work of the city. Her major work was the inauguration of the Girl Guide movement in the Dominion, and she was chief guide for New Zealand for 12

years. With Mrs. Roy Wilson she presented to the movement "Otimai," the training home for guides at Waitnkere. Mrs. Wilson was the founder and first president of the Auckland Women's Club, now the Lyceum Club, of which she is life president. She is also interested in infant work at the Door of Hope Home. The gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson of their splendid home at Takapuna for crippled children is still fresh in public memory. M.B.E. From the time when she came- to Auckland, with her husband, Mr. W. H. Smith, one of the founders of Smith and Caughey, Ltd., Mrs. Caughey Preston (now the wife of the Rev. Raymond Preston) was, until Mr. Smith's death in 1012, associated with him in many charitable activities. These included the Helping Hand Mission, of Freeman's Bay, the Auckland Central Mission, and the Door of Hope. They made many gifts to Auckland, including the Alexandra, Homo for Convalescents at Ellerslie. Since 1912 Mrs. Preston has continued to exercise the same helpful influence in Christian philanthropies and to enrich the' city and its environs with benefactions. Mrs. Mary Chatfield, for the last 20 years, has been the lady editor of the "Evening Post," Wellington, and has also been actively interested in social welfare work. She is president of the ■Wellington branch of the National Council of Women. Mrs. Anne Isobel' Fraer was for four years Dominion president of the National Council of Women, and she represented the council at the Washington Conference in 1925. She served as a councillor on the Christchurch City Council for four years from 1927. Mrs. Fraer was recently reappointed for her third term on the Prisons Board, of which she is the only woman member. Dr. Doris Clifton Gordon, of Stratford, took a leading part in the campaign which resulted in the endowment of a' chair of obstetrics at Otago University. Miss Edith Annie Howes, the author of "Sun's Babies" and other books, was a school teacher at Gore and Wellington. She was born in London, but came to New Zealand as a child.