CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23752, 25 September 1942, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Sir James and Lady Hutchison (Dunedin) are visiting their son and daughter-in-law. Major and Mrs J. D. Hutchison, Fendalton. Mrs Hunsford Johnston (Wellington), who has been visiting her sister, Mrs L. W. Ballan, Cambridge terrace, has returned home. Miss Mary Wigley left Auckland yesterday for Christchurch to take up a war appointment in the South Island. Nurse Mcßae, visiting Plunket nurse at Little River, who is leaving to take up duties at Dunedin, was entertained recently by the local committee of the Plunket Society. The president (Mrs O. Stanbury) presented a gift and posy to Nurse Mcßae, with the best wishes of the committee. At a rausicale given by the Christchurch High School Old Girls’ Association at the National Club rooms an enjoyable programme, mostly of Russian music was ’given bv Mesdames M. Holland. M. Ross, C. E. Pethybridge, Misses B. Hall, J. Byres, and P. Mander (songs). Misses V. Yager, J. Browne, and E. French (piano solos). Miss Olga Purves, and the association’s glee club. Accompaniments were played by Mrs C. G. M. Boyce, the president, who presided, and Misses Bessie Pollard and E, French. Amongst recent donations to the Mayoress’s Parcels Fund are the following:—Canterbury Women’s Club, 500 circle, £6 ss; Overseas League, £4O 2s 6d; Central Townswomen’s Guild (further donation), £3 10s 6d. Provision for assistance to several London charities and a bequest to the New Zealand Institute for the Blind are contained in the will of Mrs Leah Davis, of Park lane, London, whose death occurred on October 11, 1941. Mrs Davis, who formerly lived in Auckland, was the mother of Sir Ernest Davis and the Hon. Eliot Davis. Probate has now been granted of the will, and the New Zealand estate is valued at under £30,000. Five Jewish charities in London and the London Hospital are to receive sums either of £lO5 or £52 10s, and a gift of £lO5 is made to the Institute for the Blind in Auckland.

The women’s auxiliary of the Navy League, which has recently settled in new rooms in the Chamber of Commerce building has a good supply of wool for socks and would be glad if knitters would help to knit socks for New Zealand men based on English coasts. During a period of six weeks 1800 knitted comforts have been sent overseas and cakes and knitted garments have been given to visiting naval men, who have also been entertained and billeted in the city. The spinning circle is making good progress, and is supplying wool for seaboot stockings.

Women’s baseball has made good progress in the two years during which it has been played in Dunedin as an organised sport, and it is anticipated that a dozen teams will participate in this season’s senior competition. Some clubs have already held their annual meetings, and the competition garcjes will be commenced about the middle of October,

The death has occurred at New Plymouth of Mrs E. Parkin, aged 93, the first white woman to settle at Inglewood. Born in Sussex, Mrs Parkin arrived at Inglewood in January. 1875, with her husband, the late Mr W. Laurence, and five children, and with the exception of n few years at Hawera she had lived there since. Mr Laurence died eight years after his arrival in New Zealand, and his widow later married Mr T, Parkin.

The Opawa branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society reports that this year’s collection amounted to 11s 3d. an increase on last year’s effort. A New Zealand woman who is a voluntary helpc. at the New Zealand Forces Club in London, writing to her sister in Christchurch, said that socks, seaboot stockings, and high-necked pullovers are urgently needed—not mittens and balaclavas. She adds that at the club they have been unravelling unwanted balaclavas and knitting tna wool into socks, as wool for socks is not obtainable.

Sister G. Fenwick, commandant of V.A.’s in Sumner, L training 24 members of the Sumner Nursing Division. St. John Ambulance, in hygiene, and a military instructor conducts classes in drill and physical culture. The division, which meets weekly, also trains V.A/8 in first-aid and home nursing.

Lady Adams, widow of Professor Sir John Adams, formerly Chancellor of the University of London, died recently in Los Angeles. Lady Adams, a journalist, author, and social worker, took her husband’s place at Cambridge University during the last war and delivered the lectures in his stead, bne visited New Zealand some years ago. Her brother, the late Mr John Cook, lived at Mount Eden, Auckland. The "N.Z.E.F. Times” reports the marriage in Nazareth of Sister Ilene Deal (2nd New Zealand General Hospital), daughter of Mrs G. W. Deal, Fendalton, Christchurch, to Lieutenant A. L. Cox, R.A.0.C., son of Mr and Mrs A. Cox, Liverpool. Sister L. Warring was bridesmaid, the bride was given away by Colonel F. M. Spencer, officer commanding the 2nd New Zealand General Hospital, and Miss D. Brown, matron of the hospital, represented the bride’s mother. The bouquets carried by the bride and bridesmaid were the gifts of the nuns of St. Joseph s Convent, Nazareth, patients from the hospital strewed the pathway to the church with flowers, and Sister• P. Dewar piped the bride and bridegroom from the church. The four-tiered wedding cake was made of cakes saved by the nurses from their home parcels.

Mrs A J. Dickinson, diet supervisor at the Auckland Hospital, whose resignation has recently been accepted by the Auckland Hospital Board, has received advice that her husband, who is in the Merchant Navy, is appointed to a position in Wellington.