For WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23080, 24 July 1940, Page 2

For WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES

MrsJGeorge Hanmer, who has, been paying - a visit to relatives inJ England, has'tettirned to. Christchurch.

Mass Muriel Dawson (Auckland) will be ; a visitor to Christchurch for ' the wedding of Miss Joan Cuningham next week. , She will be the gyest of Mrs A. C. Keell, St. Asaph street.

Mr and Mrs Maxwell Keys,/ who left about ; lß, months, ago for England; are returning, to New Zealand, 'and are expected in- Christchurch early in September; -Mr Keys went to England as. the holder of. a Carnegie Travelling Fellowship.

Mrs Aubrey Pollock has arrived from England, and is-staying with her mother, Mrs E. G. Gebbie, "Hambleden,”. Bealey avenue, - , Miss Kathleen Hoare (Kilpaore street west),,, who has been, in Melbourne for some- months, .will: arrive- -in Christchurch on Friday,- and will spend a few. days with, her parents, Mr and Mrs'Denys Hoare, before leaving .for Dunedin.

• Mrs John Roy,, who before her marriage: was Miss Jocelyn Turner, of Christchurch,' has joined : the . Women’s Auxiliary Air. Force in England, after a period of ambulance driving in' Glasgow-. Her huspand. Dr. Roy, is on active : service . with the R.A.M.C. , . '.. ’ .

“The .present nursing staff and more than 70 former -nurses of the New Plymouth hospital gathered oh' Saturday night to honour Miss -B. ■ A. Campbell, M.8.E., matron of the hospital,' who is soon to retire after 40 -years’ service, the ,'last 24- years ofwhich she has been matron. •

' Advice has been'received in Christchurch that the marriage of .Maureen, second daugbter-bf Major and the Hon. Mrs Tahu Rhodes, .London, to Michael Nevill. of the' Scots-Guards, , will take place, in. the Guards’ Chapel, London, next Saturday. July 27.

'/Miss ’Napcy 'Fannin' and Miss' Barbara ; Landels; "both Karitane nurses from Hastings, who have, been nursing in England for the last two years, returned to ‘Hawke’s Bay on Saturday. ’Miss-'C. Jw Cameron, ; matron of the Pukeora Sanatorium,:' Waipukurau, for the last two years, will retire at the beginning of October. She received har training as a nurse in the Dunedin Hospital, and later gained experience in sanatorium nursing in Australia. Mrs Garfield Crawford .(Invercargill) will arrive to-morrow on a visit to Christchurch.

Traffic control duties are being undertaken by women in the larger cities of South Africa, as about half the Joyces of-inspectors have joined, up for war service. At present the women afe taking charge of more than 40 control points .outside schools. Several members of • the Women’s Auxiliary Services are doing clerical work, some have been trained as conductors, and others are at telephone switchboards in the Fire Department. Medicine taken three times daily is unnatural and upsets the digestion. Keep yourself in perfect trim with R.U.R.. tw<? or three times a week. It’s a marvellous laxative, kidney stimulants liver tonic, and rheumatic remedy. “ 3

Mr and Mrs Humphrey ActonAdams and Miss Gladys Acton-Adams (Kaikoura) arrived in Christchurch last evening to attend the wedding of Mr T. McKeller and Miss Katharine Hay, at Pigeon Bay, to-day. At the last meeting of the Christchurch Free Kindergarten Association, a motion of sympathy with Miss Frances Cooper in her illness was carried.

Changes in the staffs of City kindergartens were reported at the last meeting of the association. Miss Joyce Godfrey had resigned because of her approaching marriage and Miss Pilkington had been transferred from the Woolston Kindergarten to succeed Miss Godfrey as director of the New Brighton Kindergarten. Mrs Young (formerly Miss Cordery) had relinquished kindergarten work, Misses Andrews and Hughes were promoted to be codirectors at Woolston and Mrs Tracy, Miss Gorman and Miss Warburton -had been appointed temporarily to the staff.

Members of the Alford Forest branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union held a dance in the local schoolroom to raise money for patriotic purposes. Novelty dances were won by Miss Barbara Grigg and Mr Hugh Alexander, Miss Noeleen Harmer and Mr A. Green, and Miss M. Grigg and Mr V. Grieves. Messrs C. Grigg and W. Hart were masters of ceremonies and music was played by Mesdames Maclean and Goodrich. At a meeting of the committee of “The Clothes Shop,” held yesterday forenoon, it was decided to hold the shop early in October, and preliminary arrangements were made for the collection of high-class clothing, jewellery, furnishings, and antiques. The proceeds of “The Clothes Shop” have in recent years provided prompt relief to many needy and sadly afflicted persons in Christchurch. Misses Magdalen Hall, Mavis Ritchie, Marion Email, Makere Gardiner. Professor L- G. Pocock, Messrs A. G. Brown-Douglas, H. G. Cotterill, Dundas Walker, and H. Sarginson will leave to-morrow night for Wellington to take part in the centennial one-act play festival. All are members of the Canterbury Repertory Theatre Socieiy. Miss Nancy Nicholson (producer of the society); Mrs H. G. Cotterill, Miss Margaret Brinkman, and Mr D. EDall will also visit Wellington for the festival.

The lady editor of “The Press’ gratefully acknowledges the gift of a sofa from Mrs Moore, Frederick street. The sofa was delivered yesterday to the home of a needy family, where there is sickness, and where it is greatly appreciated. The lady editor also acknowledges with thanks a parcel of mittens and balaclavas from “E.H.” for men on minesweepers.

A message to Britons in Christchurch. Defy the enemy and eat more cakes. Be military minded this weekend and buy Napoleon block. Wellington cake. Nelson block, and lasi but not least Ethne’s irresistible Churchill squares, all ready for your emergency Order early and ’Phone 33-476 These cakes obtainable only at Hereford court and Ethne’s one shop in Cashel street, 123 a. next door to McArthur’s, Chemist. —1