CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22411, 26 May 1938, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Miss Eva Card (Featherston) will arrive l in Christchurch this morning on a short visit.

Miss Margaret Miles (Wellington) is the guest of Mrs Cecil Wood, Armagh street west. The Mayoress (Mrs R. M. Macfarlane) would be gratified for gifts of baby clothes, for which she has received many requests. Parcels addressed to Mrs Macfarlane may.be left at the City Council Chambers. Mrs J. W. Crampton has , been elected vice-president of nursing cadets in the Christchurch Corps, St, John Ambulance Brigade. Mrs W. J. Ellis (Greymouth) is spending a holiday in Christchurch, where she is the guest of Mrs Cplquhoun, Riccarton. : Mr and Mrs A- H. Cavell (Merivale) returned home yesterday after a short visit to the North Island.

Mrs Andrew Thompson (Dunedin) is the guest of Mr and Mrs L. B. Thompson, Papanui road. Mr and Mrs D. R. Thompson (Sumner) have returned from a holiday visit to the Hermitage, Mount Cook. Mr and Mrs Noel McGregor (Mount Linton, Southland) have left for the north to join the Monterey at the end of the month for a holiday visit to America. The wedding took place yesterday at a London registry office of Yehudi Menuhin, the world-famous American violinist, and Nola Nicholas, daughter of Mr George Nicholas, of Toorak, Melbourne, principal of the firm of Aspro, Ltd. Immediately after the wedding the couple were to sail for California, where they will make their permanent home. Menuhin has a ranch at Los Gatos, in the Santa Cruz mountains. Miss Nicholas will shortly be 19 years old, and Yehudi Menuhin, born in New York, was 21 in January this year. Before the evening’s programme commenced at the Canterbury Women’s Club last evening, members stood in silence as a tribute to the memory of Miss Annie Spence and Mrs John Russell, who had both been foundation members of the club. In passing a vote of sympathy to their relatives, Mrs J. R. McLaren spoke of the interest Miss Spence had always taken in the welfare of the club, and of the loss musical circles in the city had sustained by the death of Mrs Russell, who had been musical director of the club for the last 15 years. Prize-winners at the weekly flag “500”’ drive held last evening to assist the funds of the Young Women’s Christian Association were Mrs McKeown, Mrs L. Smith, and Mr C. Edgar (first prizes); Mrs W. Chammen, Mrs R. Hampton, and Mr K. Ward (second.prizes); Mr E. M. Millan, Mr T. Muir, and Mr C. Edmonds (third prizes). Mr C. King was master of ceremonies.

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DR. ADA PATERSON

' DOMINION MEMORIAL PROPOSED

There is a widespread feeling that national appreciation of Dr. Ada Paterson’s long, enthusiastic, and efficient services to the community—especially in promoting the health and general welfare of the children—should be recognised in some permanent form.

It is proposed to found an endowment to be used to provide some special feature of the health camps and some tangible memorial in marble or, bronze to be placed in the health camps or in some other national institution.

A strong representative committee, ■with headquarters in Wellington, has been set up for the purpose of coordinating the efforts being made throughout the Dominion and of assisting in seeing that the desired objects are attained.

Contributions will be received by the treasurer, Mr C. Meachen, 29 Vivian street, Wellington, C. 3., or by the treasurer of any branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute or of the Public Service Association.

As a pioneer, in social reform, Dr. Pater Son did outstanding work in the realm of school hygiene. This brought her face to face with an extraordinary field of problems of child life, and almost every investigation in which she was engaged yielded some definite benefit to the children of New Zealand. She began in 1916 by investigating the normal standards of physical development of the New Zealand child, and from that time never ceased putting forward proposals to improve the health of school children. The hot cocoa or soup which is now an established institution in many schools had its origin in these inquiries. The relative value of sandwiches made of meat, lettuce or cheese and fruit was ascertained, and study was given to the incidence of goitre;' mental backwardness and retardation; playgrounds; bubble fountains; the incidence of rheumatic fever, diphtheria, and tuberculosis; Maori susceptibility to disease, and so on. Nobody had more to do with the inauguration of toothbrush drill, bathing and swimming, school gardens, and school nurses than Dr. Ada Paterson.

The enrolling member, Mrs • A. J. Petrie, presided at a committee meeting of the St. Peter’s branch of the Mothers’ Union, Akaroa. Arrangements were made for the year’s programme, speakers, committee’s duties, and the making of tablecloths for use at the monthly meetings.