CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23714, 12 August 1942, Page 5

CURRENT NOTES

R a, Fougere (Dunedin), acM „. n ipd bv her children, is visiting Barents ‘Mr and Mrs T. W, Rose, tcverley street, while her husband is \n campu/hpn Her Majesty the Queen visited i WRN.S. establishments at Plynth and Devonport. recently, his--111011 min"led with the hard training of says the “Queen," for Her liaiesty was the first Engush Queen to i.n n voyage in a vessel manned en--111 I* by women. The Queen’s Stanreifwas .broken i from the masthead •■-’hen Tier Majesty jour“Lp'd up the lamoaze from the Flagn.eWeos to the R.N. Barracks in a Se in charge of a W.R.N.S. coxba.in 28-vcar-o'd Miss Marjory Jeff ’andWF N.S. ratings formed the ..'Wrens also manned the launches bringing up the rear of the Royal bar® 6 - , 4 . . An unusual adoption case came hern the Native Lands Court at Hawera nppntlv A Maori woman aged 76 r nnlied for the adoption of a family of cpven children. The Judge of the rnurt Mr R. P. Dykes. Wanganui, sugppctpd that she might like to adopt nprhaps only two of the children, but thP Maori was firm. She wanted the Thole family and on her death they would succeed to her property and possessions. The adoption was granted. At the last meeting of the PapanuiMerivale sub-branch of the Plunket Society, Mrs B. E. H. Whitcombe presided Nurse Thomson gave the following report for the month of July;— visits to Rooms: Papanui-Christchurch, adults Papanui 338, Christchurch 219; babies’, Papanui 314, Christchurch 213; children, Papanui 25. Visits to homes: papanui 70, Christchurch 39; new babies 20. The following candidates were successful in an examination on elementary hygiene and sanitation, held at the Red Cross rooms on July 23: Oka Anderson (hon.), Doris Aburn (bon,), Myrtle Beer (hon,), Ellen Bradley (hon.), Olive Clark, Janet Cooke (hon.), Gladys Ellen (hon.), Berwyn Frye (hon,). Mary Goodall, Helen Gunn. Jean Hay (hon.), Byllee Henderson, Patricia Hill, Nita Hopkins (hon), Kathleen Morrow (hon.), Stella McEwin, Shirley McGuinness, Edna Neville, Esther Nevin, Jessie O’Callaghan, Karin Scannell, Gwen Smart, Barbara Smith (hon.), Gwynneth Thomas (hon.). Dorothy Thomas. Mavis Travers, Rona Wear (hon.). Ida McCormack, Ellen Smith, Sue Smith. Jossie Lowman. Mrs F. J. T. Grigg presided at the executive meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and Mrs Clark took devotions. Representatives of town and country branches reported on their work for temperance. Arrangements were made for the district convention to be held In Christchurch In September. A letter was received asking for more teaching of temperance in Sunday schools. WEDDING CAKES. Ethne Tosswill is happy to be able to announce that she still has stocks available of everything necessary for the complete Wedding Cake. Order yours early at Ethne Tosswill’s, 123 A Cashel street. —6