RED CROSS SOCIETY

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22676, 3 April 1939, Page 2

RED CROSS SOCIETY

ANNUAL MEETING AT OPAWA

FIRST AID CLASSES FbRMED

Lady Wigram, Dr. Alexander Gillies (Wellington, chairman of the Do-, minion executive of the Red Cross Society), Mrs Herbert Smith, and Mrs J. G. L. Vernon were speakers at the seventh annual meeting of the Opawa sub-centre of the Red Cross Society, taeld c at the home of Mrs D. E. Hansen, Opawa road. Each speaker dealt with some phasg of the first aid and home nursing classes 'being formed by various branches of the Red Cross Society, and it was decided to hold classes in these subjects in the. Opawa district. Several members enrolled, and it was decided to invite others interested, particularly the younger women and girls, to attend the classes.

Mrs D. E. Hansen was unanimously re-elected president of the sub-centre, and other officers appointed were:— Vice-president, Mrs A. Forbes; honorary secretaries, Mrs R. Erwin and Mrs L. G. Blackwell; honorary treasurer, Mrs F, H. Polhill; honorary auditor, Mr H. J. Quarrell; committee, Mesdames J. K. Stuart, M. L. Taylor, G. Lucas, R. A. Ferguson, J. Parr, H. J. Quarrell, W. Copeland, J. F. Scott, Misses G..Thomson, A. Fraser, and N. Wills.' The year’s activities were reviewed by the secretary, and the financial statement was adopted. A motion of sympathy was passed with, the relatives of Mrs G. J. .Smith and 'of Mrs A. Wilson;

After the business session, afternoon tea was served by the committee. '

OBITUARY

MRS A. D. PARK

<PBB8» ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, April 2. The death occurred in Wellington today After a short illness of Mrs A. D. Park, wife of Mr A. D. Park, chairman of directors of the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand. Mrs Park was the daughter of Mr and Mrs J. C. Mercer, Nelson. She was educated at Nelson Girls’ College, and before her marriage was a keen tennis and hockey player. For several years she was captain of the Wakatu Women’s Hockey Club and of the Nelson women’s representative hockey team. In 1912 she. married Mr A. D. Park, whose career in the Public Service is well known. Their only child is a son, Mr Roland John Dallas Park, at present a medical student at Melbourne University. Mrs Park was of a retiring disposition. but tpok a keen interest in charitable and philanthropic work. For a number of years she had been an active member of the committee of St. Mary’s Guild, Karori.

DIET IMPROVEMENT

PROBLEM OF FOODSTUFFS

A special appeal has been made to women throughout the world by Sir John Orr, the eminent research worker on nutrition problems and director of the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, to take an increasingly active part in the movement which tends to raise the physical standard of the population by dietary improvement. He has urged members of the National Councils of Women, through the International Council, to draw up a short pamphlet, stating in simple terms of foodstuffs applicable in each country, the nutritional standards set up by the League of Nations, following the findings of its Nutrition Committee. A copy of that pamphlet, he declares, should be put into the hands of every mother in the world. The Countess Daisy di Robilant, of Italy, has expressed her conviction that if women really cared for and worked for the organisation and application to the younger generation of rational nutritive methods, they would contribute more than anybody else to public health.