For WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23479, 6 November 1941, Page 2

For WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs D. G. Sullivan is visiting Invercargill with her husband, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister for Industries and Commerce. They will leave for the north to-morrow. Dr. and Mrs C. M. Greenslade and Mrs V. Jacobs (Dunedin), Mr and Mrs J. G. Donald (Masterton), the Misses O’Neill and Mrs E. Berryman (Wellington) will be visitors to Christchurch for Cup week. Colonel and Mrs Keith Stewart (Wellington) will arrive in Christchurch to-morrow, and will be the guests of Mr and Mrs J. G. L. Vernon, Webb street. Colonel Stewart recently returned to New Zealand from overseas. Mr and Mi’s T, H. Lowry (Okawa, Hawke’s Bay) will be the guests of Lady Wigram, Park terrace, for Cup Week. Mr and Mrs J. McL. Reid (Kaikoura) will be the guests of Mr and Mrs J. F- Gibson, “Ashbrook.” Fendalton, for the Cup race meeting. Miss IVlcLean • (Dunedin), who has been visiting Wellington to attend a meeting of the Dominion Council of the Red Cross, has returned home. Mrs Arthur Watson and Miss Ruth Watson (Auckland), who are the guests of Mrs C. C. Davis, “Ferndale,” Avonside, will leave for the north tomorrow. Mrs Redmond Neill (“Bavvosa, 1 Mount Somers) is the guest of Mrs Charles Rattray, Merivale lane. Mrs Harben Young (Wellington) is visiting Christchurch, and is staying at Warwick House, Armagh street. The lady editor of "The Press” gratefully acknowledges receipt of balaclavas for men on minesweepers from the Brookside Women’s Institute. The monthly meeting of the Cashmere Garden Club was held at the home of Mrs F. C. Thornton, Whareora terrace, and Mrs N. G. Mitchell presided. Mrs L. Morrison gave a talk on scent and colour in the garden. Hostesses were Mesdames H. A. Young, C. E. Foweraker, F. Bowron, and J. C. Oakley. At the annual meeting of the Friends of Christchurch Cathedral Association, held last night, Dean Warren, who presided, expressed regret at the deaths, during the last year, of two valued membprs of the association—Mrs J. B. Beckett and Mrs W. Chapman. Members stood as a mark of respect to their memory. A drawing for partners contract bridge match, played at Crockford's Club, resulted as follows:—North and South: Mrs C. Stringer and Miss P, Norton 1, Mrs R. Law and Mrs C. W. Reid 2. Mrs H. H, Young and Mr D. T. McCormick 3. East and West: Mrs G, B. Morgan and Professor P. H. Powell 1, Miss J. Lee and Mr J. Benges 2, Mrs M. M. Bayne and Mrs E. Whar-* ton 3. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Friends of the Christchurch Cathedral Association last evening, Dean Warren said that a new altar book and a new service book, beautifully bound, had recently been bought for the Cathedral. The service book, he said, was the gift of the girls at St. Margaret’s College. Meeting, Clothes Shop Committee, Art Gallery, Durham street, to-mor-row (Friday), at 10.45. —1 Ethne Tosswill advises (hat through the relaxation of the Postal Regulations she can now meet the urgent demand tor parcels for civilians in Biltaln. Send your friends a delicious Xmas Pudding or Cake made by Ethne Tosswill. Fresh condition on arrival guaranteed. 123 A Cashel st, 'Phone 33-478 for details. —H

Miss Pamela Orbell (Pentlow, South . Canterbury) will be a visitor to Chnst--1 church for Cup Week. ! The lady editor of "The Press” has been asked by the director of occupal tional therapy classes in one of the i city’s institutions to ap’peal for a > treadle sewing machine. The sewing qualities need not be in perfect order ' as the machine is not needed for sewing, but for spinning. For this purpose it is necessary to have a spinning gadget attached to the strap and if the treadle is in good order, the machine would be most helpful to the patients, who are becoming greatly interested in spinning. Speaking at the Travel Club reception yesterday morning, Dr. M. BevartBrown related an incident to illustrate the übiquity of New Zealanders. When he visited the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, which, he explained, is one and a quarter miles deep and eight miles from lip to Jip, he, rather unwisely, proceeded down the zig-zag track alone. When 3400 feet from the top he was overtaken by a party of four—a guide with two women and one man—and got into conversation with them. After a while, one of the women said, "You should visit my country.” , He then found that she was a New I Zealander, born in Christchurch, a daughter of the late Dean Jacobs, and that one of her sisters had been a fellow pupil of Dr. Bevan-Brown at a kindergarten in Christchurch. The 1 next day, Dr. Bevan-Brown had another surprising experience. Meeting ; a man in a dark suit, starched collar, ; and bowler hat—an unusual sight at the Grand Canyon—he got into conversation with him, and found that he was • a Tasmanian on hjs way home. Com- : paring notes the New Zealander and the Tasmanian found that both had arranged to leave San Francisco on the same day, in the same ship, and that both wore booked in Cabin 13! Employed during three major wars at the Colonial Ammunition Company’s munitions factory in Mount Eden, Auckland, Miss M. Barclay, leading forewoman and oldest employee of the firm, retired last week after 40 years of service at the age of 60. Miss Barclay was employed in munitions making in the Boer War and the Great War. During that time she has seen many changes in rifle ammunition, from the old Schneider to the .303 and its various types. Miss Barclay has been a central figure in all motion pictures taken of the works. On behalf of the staff she was presented with a substantial cheque, while the directors of the company gave her a radio. Chinese women who have been supplying their fighting men with blankets laboriously made on spinning wheels of medieval pattern are to have up-to-date machinery from Britain. The new looms will be based on a design not used since the eighteenth century, and on a smaller scale than used then to allow them to be worked by peasant labour and moved about the countryside when a Japanese advance is imminent. Sent out by the Anglo-Chinese Development Society, London, the machinery will be used by the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives, ap organisatim which is one pf China’s strongest defences against Japanese aggression. Why have any bother about drying clothes these days? Half the battle is in having good wringer rollers. The Para Rubber Company rerubber worn and frayed wringer rollers like new again. —l3 "STOMACH SUFFERERS!!!” Relief from ulcers, stomach nerves, etc., with guaranteed Mavex Stomach Compound, champion herbal, malt, ard elm compound. Mavex from Cameron Smith’s, Bennington's, oilier chemists, stores. • —jo