For WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23589, 17 March 1942, Page 2

For WOMEN

Mrs Edwin White (Kelburn. Wellington), who has been visiting friends in Christchurch, returned north last night. Mrs John Shortal (Riccarton) has returned from a visit to Invercargill. At the first bi-monthly meeting for the year of the Presbyterian Sunday School Teachers’ Union, held in the Cashmere Presbyterian Sunday School, Mr J. Shankland presided. Many delegates from Christchurch and the suburbs were present, and the Rev. H. J. Crawford gave a talk. A vote of thanks was passed to the speaker and to the Cashmere teachers, who served supper. Mrs Robinson (Ashburton) presided at the monthly meeting of the Rakaia branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and gave a talk on temperance. Items were given by Mrs Wisdom (song) and Mrs Stevenson (pianoforte solo), and a “bring and buy” raised nearly £2. The lady editor of “The Press” gratefully acknowledges receipt of a knitted scarf for men on minesweepers, from an anonymous friend. More than 1000 men visited the Seamen's Institute at Lyttelton during last week. Mr Matheson, missioner in charge of the institute, said at the annual meeting of the Ladies’ Guild of the British Sailors’ Society yesterday. Entertainment had been provided for the men each evening, and the Canterbury provincial patriotic council had arranged a drive into the country. Men of the coastal boats as well as those on overseas ships visited the institute in increasing numbers, he said. The annual meeting of the Cashmere sub-centre of the N.Z. Red Cross Society will be held in the Methodist Sunday School on Tuesday. March 24, at 2.30 p.m. All residents cordially invited. —6 The women’s land corps, under the W.W.S.A., has been definitely established in the Auckland Province and farmers are taking a greater interest in the corps, 20 girls having been placed on farms to date. The number of girls available has been sufficient to fill all suitable positions offering so far. Now that you can’t go home for lunch, icmember Ethne Tosswill can provide you with a delicious lunch to take away. Call-at “Ethne’s” t Hereford Court and make your own selection. Something different every day -6

CURRENT NOTES

Miss Nelle Scanlan, who has been spending a few days in Canterbury, left for the north last night. Miss Lillian Harper, vice-president of the Junior Circle of the Society of Registered Music Teachers, was _ hostess at a supper party at Begg’s on Saturday evening. The party followed a pianoforte recital given for the junior circle and their friends by Mr Lloyd Powell, the visiting English pianist, and examiner for the Royal Schools of Music. He included in his programme works by Handel, Bach, Cesar Franck, Chopin. Debussy. Rachmaninoff, and other composers. Miss Harper's guests included Mr Powell and the members of the committees of the senior Registered Music Teachers’ Association and of the Junior circle. About a year ago the Legion of Frontiersmen offered to help in raising money for the refurnishing of the Seamen’s Institute at Lyttelton. A street collection organised by them produced a net result of £572 4s lOd, half of which was set aside for refurnishing and redecorating, and the other half to set up a fund for distressed or shipwrecked seamen. As the result of further efforts by the frontiersmen and the generosity of many businessmen and friends of the institute, the building has been renovated and refurnished under the direction of the house committee of the Ladies’ Guild of the British Sailors Society, according to a report submitted at the annual meeting yesterday. A special sub-committee was set up to administer the fund for shipwrecked or distressed seamen. The money was handed over to the Patriotic Council, and the sub-committee can use it as it is required. The fund is to be used to help any sailor who has been wrecked at sea or who is otherwise in a distressed position through no fault of his own. Mrs Freeman, Georgette Millinery, has returned from the North Island, and is showing her New Autumn Millinery. Ballantyne’s Building, Cashel street, and at Ashburton. —6 SOMETHING GOOD OUT OF WAR! Yes! Britain has produced something really good this time—a new ELASTIC STOCKlNG—they’re different—they’re better than any other on the market. Exclusive stockists of these New Elastic Stockings—E. Cameron Smith. Ltd., Cathedral square. Christchurch. X 5432