For WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23319, 3 May 1941, Page 2

For WOMEN

Mr and Mrs D. Hyndman (Stratford), who have been visiting relatives in Prebbleton, are spending a short time in Christchurch before leaving by aeroplane for Wellington.

Mrs H. Taylor, vice-president, presided at a meeting of the Prebbleton branch of the Mothers’ Union. Members expressed regret that Mrs Taylor was leaving the district after living there for 15 years. Mrs F. Palmer Chapman (Martinborough), who has been staying with her mother, Mrs H. C. Orbell, Church lane, has returned north. Mrs Herbert Elworthy (Craigmore. Timaru) has left for a fortnight’s visit to Mrs A. P. White, Hawke’s Bay, and will stay with Mrs Harold Elworthy in Fendalton, Christchurch, on her return journey.

Miss A. Holford' (Dunedin),, who "has been visiting New Plymouth, is now the guest of Mrs J. C. Paifman, Latimer square. She will leave to-day on her return to Dunedin. Mrs J. L. Hazlett arrived in Christchurch from Invercargill yesterday. She will spend some months in Christchurch while her husband is in camp. At a meeting of the New Zealand Lady Galway Patriotic Guild, held on Thursday, -it •> wasi reported that the Reverend Mother at. -Mount. Magdala had had 20 crates'of clothihg Washed, ironed, and returned to the guild free of charge. A vote of thanks was accorded Mount Magdala. Thanks for help were also expressed to Messrs W. S. Baverstock, sen., Beanland, Urlwin, Taylors, Ltd., and to the staff of the tepid baths. The oldest women’s organisation in the Dominion, the Onehunga Ladies’ Benevolent Society, founded as one of the consequences of the Maori War in 1863, held its seventy-eighth consecutive annual meeting this week. The Mayor of Onehunga, Mr A. Garside, presided. Canterbury' (N.Z.) Travel piub (Inc.). A Morning Tea Reception will be held at Ballantynes on Wednesday next. May 7, at 10.15 a.m. The speakers will be Mr and Mrs Leslie Levante.

As somebody said the other day: “It’s no use sending parcels to the boys on the other side .of the world unless you send the best.’’ Ethne Tosswill is recognised as one of the finest pastrycooks in New Zealand, and her parcels for the men overseas contain things they cannot buy for themselves —things that bring a touch of home Call and see her personally, tell her what you would prefer to send, and leave the rest to her. 123 Cashel st.

(opp Ballantynes). —6 Ladies! *' Dr. Wylde’s pyretic sweat oaths supersede the old-fashioned Turkisn Bath. The pyretic bath is followed by Barilla Soap Foam Bath These treatments are .absolutely beneficial to vi ur health Pike’s, 79 Healey avenue. Telephone 36-054 for appointment. —1 I

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs J. E. Hayman (Tekapo) will arrive in Christchurch next week to visit her sister, Miss A. Griffin, Cashmere.

The matron of the Cashmere Sanatorium gratefully acknowledges the following gifts: Magazines from Maisie V. Chapman; box of hold-alls, face flannels, and other gifts for soldiers and former servicemen, from the pupils of Rangi-ruru; tobacco from the harvest thanksgiving services of St. Mary’s Church, Merivale, and from St Augustine’s Church. For the Fresh Air Home: Sweets from a friend; case of apples from Mrs Mcllraith; toffee apples from Mrs Stephens; Easter eggs from Mrs Lloyd; ice-cream from Mrs Hume; cakes, fruit, and sweets from Mesdames Dawson, Sincock, Duckmanton, Hume, K. and M. Beswick; donation from Mrs Dalgleish. The Comforts Committee of the Patriotic Society, which . has 15.000 heelless socks to' be finished off, asks that representatives of woman’s organisations should help in this task. Socks will not be entrusted to individuals but will be given to accredited representatives of women’s organisations, which, in turn, will distribute them among their members. (

■ Westport residents will be interested ,to learn that Miss Joan Hagen, Singapore, recently matron of the Muar [Hospital, has been visiting New Zealand and Australia, and will leave soon on her return journey to Singapore. Miss Hagen, whose father, Dr, Hagen, formerly practised in Westport, has been in charge of a 300-bed hospital in which the entire staff, except herself and One European doctor, are all Asiatics.

Matron E. ToWnend and the 13 sisters from the hospital. ship Somersetshire have left Wellington for a tour of the North Island. They expect to return to Wellington next Tuesday morning. Matron Townend, who us a Yorkshire woman, has been in the regular Army Nursing Service for the last 17 years. She served for five years in India and three in Malta. She' has been with the Somersetshire since last November. Wearing a lace gown of cream satin -brocaded with gold roses and a tulle veil Miss Margaret Valmai Richardson was; married at., the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Wellington, -on Wednesday to Mr Robert George Forbes, of Cheviot, son of the Rt. Hon. George Forbes, a former Prime Minister of New Zealand, and Mrs Forbes. The bride is the daughter of Mr C. A. Richardson, Talavera terrace, and the late Mrs Richardson. KEEP COSY AND WARM THESE FROSTY NIGHTS. i Call at E. Cameron Smith. Ltd., the ■popular chemists. Cathedral square, Christchurch, and procure a heavy Rubber “Guaranteed-for-12-months” HOT WATER BAG. 4/8 (postal orders 5/4). NEW STOCKS JUST ARRIVED. X 4567