OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23493, 22 November 1941, Page 2

OBITUARY

MRS E. A. M. ROBERTS One of the best-known and most highly esteemed social workers ox Christchurch, Mrs Evelyn Anne Mary Roberts, wife of Mr W. G. Roberts, died yesterday. Mrs Roberts waa the first and only woman to serve on ther. Sumner Borough Council, and was one of the first women justices of the peace in New Zealand. For nine years she was president of the Mothers’ Union, and was a life member of the Council of the Mothers’ Union for the diocese of Christchurch. From 1923 to 1927 she was a member of the North Canterbury Hospital Board. ;epresenting the Sumner, Lyttelton, and Riccarton electorate, and was re-elected last April. She held an important position as an officer to the North Canterbury Hospital Board for nine years. V. But her work for the, improvement of social welfare did not end'here. She was president of the Social Hygiene Society (no longer in existence),' vicepresident of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, and was a life member of the National Council of Women, a member of the League of Women Helpers of Toe H. and was chairwoman of the Soldiers’ Comforts Committee in Sumner. Last August she was elected chairwoman of the Sumner Library Committee. She was also an officer in the Bible-in-Schools’ League. Mrs Roberts was the daughter of the late Mrs E. W. Cunnington, who also was a great social worker in her time. Mrs Cunnington was one of the first women members of the Hospital Board, to which she was elected in 1910. She was an ardent social reform worker and devoted much of her time to the cause of prison reform, rescue work, and infant protection. She was a great advocate for wpmen police. Mrs Roberts is survived by her husband and family of four, three sons and one daughter. One son, Lance, was living in South Africa when the war broke out, and is now serving with the South African forces. Mr Hoy Roberts is a civil engineer in Fiji, and Mr Maxwell Roberts is a resident of Christchurch. Her daughter, Mrs D. M. Park, is in Dunedin. ENGAGEMENTS The engagement is announced of Aircraftsman Brian David younger son of Mr and Mrs D. C. Marshall, Wellington, to Lydia Frances, adopted daughter of Miss M. E. Sims, Christchurch. The engagement is anounced of John Dundonald, son of Mr and Mrs John Cochrane, of Balclutha, to Norah Grover, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs B. C. Quaife, of Clydevale, South Otago. WOMEN’S DIVISION. OF FARMERS’ UNION HORORATA Mrs W. Thwaites presided at the November meeting of .he Hororata branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union. Motions of sympathy were passed with Mrs Hill and Mrs Page in their recent bereavements. Mrs Thwaites gave a report of the provincial executive meeting. Competitions resulted:—Home-made furnishing, Mrs Duckmanton 1, Mrs J. F. Thwaites 2, Mrs Hockridge 3; summer pudding with recipe, Mrs P. Derrett 1, Miss Hockridge 2, Mrs J. F. Thwaites 3; bowl of lupins. Miss Hockridge 1, Mrs Hockridge 2, Mrs Jones 3; bowl of sweet peas, Mrs H. Simms 1; flowers, large bloom. Mrs P. Derrett 1, Mrs L. ■Derrett 2,.Mrs Pearson 3; small bloom, Mrs Jones 1, Mrs Hockridge 2, Mrs P. Derrett 3. Mrs Hockridge was the hostess.

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