CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23673, 25 June 1942, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs Acland (Mount Peel), accompanied her husband, Mr J. Acland, M.P., to Wellington this week. Miss E. Law, national general secre-. tary of the Young .Women’s Christian Association, will arrive in Christchurch on Monday. Miss Betty Rutherford (Beverley street) is paying a short visit to Franz Josef Glacier. Mrs Bernard Moore (Temuka) is visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs E. G. McCullough, Bealey avenue. The death is announced in Wellington of Miss Vera Janet Dawson, only daughter of Captain J. E. Dawson, formerly harbourmaster at Wellington, and Mrs Dawson.

During the last two years and three months, the Christchurch Women’s Auxiliary of the British Sailors’ Society has spent £986 on wool to be knitted for comforts for men of the Merchant Navy, and has supplied 7825 garments for distribution among seamen visiting Lyttelton. These facts were disclosed at the Canterbury Women’s Club yesterday afternoon by Mrs H. S. Vestey, who is in charge of the auxiliary’s comforts department.

A morning wedding recently celebrated in Sydney was that of Miss Diana Allen, daughter of Mr Richard Allen, formerly of "The Mill House," Fendalton, and of Mrs Allen, Sydney, to Mr Alastair Stephen, only son of Sir Colin Stephen, formerly of Sydney. The bridegroom’s two small nieces, Martha and Caroline Rutledge, attended the bride, who was given away by her uncle, Mr A. Allen. She wore a beige crepe frock and beige hj: I with brown veil, and carried an autumntinted bouquet. The ■ reception was held at "Elvo,” Rose Bay. the home ot the bridegroom.

Speaking at the Travel Club yesterday, the Rev. A. M. Costain said that his native land, the Isle of Man, had a link with Christchurch. At the littie town of Laxej' were fine gardens, where he, as a boy, had enjoyed many picnics. Those grounds, he said, were laid out by Mr J. Young, who for many years was in charge of the -Botanic Gardens in Christchurch.

Ten women are to be employed as porters and station attendants at the Invercargill railway station. Applicants are bein r interviewed this week. A hostel has been completed for girls and women employed at the Tapanui linen flax orks, and a matron has been appointed to take charge of the hostel. More women are required for this work. >'

"A complete division was formed in the British Army in the last war of men born at the Queen Charlotte Maternity Hospital, London,” said Mrs A. Sandston, who represented the Friends of ot. Helens at an afternoon social at “Maryknoll,” yesterday. Mrs Sandston was giving a brief history of this hospital, which has suffered many reverses in this war. Cabled advice has been received ,L>v Mr and Mrs A. L. Canter, of Devonport, of the marriage of their daughter, Private Marcia Canter, to SecondLieutenant L. C. Barton, son of Mr and Mrs W. M. Barton, of Stanley Bay, Auckland. Private Canter is one of the party of 200 New Zealand girls who left for the Middle East as members of the Women’s War Service Auxiliary hospital division. Lieutenant Barton left New Zealand for serviceoverseas in 1940.

The salary scale of voluntary aids doing hospital work for the North Canterbury Hospital Board hps been increased to 30s a week, plus £1 a week as living out allowance, and their overalls are provided and laundered. This action, which was taken on the recommendation of the North Canterbury branch of the Red Cross Society, was reported by the finance committee at the board meeting yesterday. In addition voluntary aids coming from a distance, or in other special cases, will have their travelling expenses paid. The lady editor of "The Press" gratefully acknowledges receipt of several games and magazines from "Anonymous” for men of the Merchant Navy, a packet of stamps from Mrs F. W. Hobbs, and a parcel of scarves from an anonymous friend. Games are greatly appreciated by men of the Merchant Navy. ’

At the monthly meeting of the women’s branch of the New Zealand Labour Party it was decided to give £lO towards the Mayoress’s parcel fund. Several members offered to give parties in their homes, so that an additional grant could be made later. The general opinion was that all should do whatever possible to help this worthy cause.

Mrs W. Bedford (Darfleld) was hostess at an enjoyable afternoon bridge party, at which members of the Darfleld Croquet Club met to say goodbye to their president. Mrs M. S. Johnston. Who is leaving the district. In making a small presentation to Mrs Johnston, Mrs Register extended to her the best wishes of the cl'ub.

The following members of the Redcliffs first-aid c.ass, conducted by Mrs Garrard and the officers of the Sumner Nursing Division, have been awarded their first-aid certificates: Eleanor Simpson, Henrietta Papps, Phyllis Macdonnell, Nellie Kirk. Freda Hannah, Margaret Hurrell. Mary Goodall. Constance Guy. Evelyn Foster, Dorothy Bamford. Liliah A. .M. Ballard, Gertrude A. Bartley, Edith M. Allen, Florence B. Welch. Esther Niven, Alma L. Webb. Have soft, velvety skin loveliness, under all conditions—rub in a little Lemon Glisco —it neutralises skin waste, beautifies face and arms and neck, from Wool-worths, 1 McKenzie’s, and elsewhere. —3 DRAGES FOURTH BIRTHDAY Bargains in every department and piece birthday cake for every shopper during week. DRAGES CO., LTD., ‘‘Home Planning Centre,” Manchester and Tuam streets. —6