For WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23798, 18 November 1942, Page 5

For WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES

SOCIAL NEWS F r the ciL!ration of the war news f a Dureiv social nature will not ap°r p , r in "The Tress" unless it relates to men and women on service. Miss L. A. Hurle, M.A., principal of .A ximavu Girls' High" School, has fcpen appoint'd .. secondary schools injector, and has resigned from her position at Timaru. T. E. Wiltshire, Mrs L. J, Bar.j, an d Miss .lean Fenwick left yes♦orriov for Wellington to attend a conference of commandants df St. John Ambulance. Mrs A N. i.'-ieg, M.P.. and Mrs M. M D r ea\er, M.T.. who are conducting « recruiting ..ampaign for the Women's land Service, uill address a meeting in Dunedin on Saturday and Mrs Dreay .■ will go next week to Southland jfieghters of the Riccarton Garden riuB e ' tat the home of Mrs A. O. Wellwood, Hamilton avenue, where an interesting talk on "The Herbaceous Border" was given by Mr J. R. Temnlin The president, Mrs Arthur Stewart, thanked the speaker and the hostess. . . , Miss D, M. A-. owsmith, of V.elUngton, a returned missionary from Amoy China, has been appointed by the presbvterian Assembly to be super'tten'dcnt of the Presbyterian Women's Missionary Training Institute in Dunedin. News has been received in Christchurch by cablegram, of the birth of a daughter to Lieutenant John Corry and Mrs Corry, of Kent, England. Mrs Corry, formerly Miss Theresa Ward, only daughter of the late Sir Cyril Ward, and of Lady Ward, Merivalc lane ’has many friends in Christchurch, where she lived until she left for England a few years ago. At the annual luncheon reunion of the Christchurch branch of St. Hilda’s Old Girls’ Association, held at the National Club yesterday, the president, MrsT. W. C. Tothill. read a letter from the Christchurch branch of iAir Force Relations, thanking members for valuable help given by knitting for men of the Air Force. The letter asked for continued or increased support, as it pointed out that many who formerly knitted for airmen had now joined the services and were unable to help as much as they did formerly. It was decided to continue to knit during the summer months. The lady edito 1 of ‘‘The Press’’ gratefully acknowledges receipt of £1 for Christmas cheei for lepers from an anonymous friend, £1 and a parcel nf children’s clothes for Dr. Barnardo s homes, and £1 for the Leper Fund, all from "Anonymous,” and a box oStamps from Mr Bee, Yaldhurst. WEDDING CAKES. Bthne 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. MANNEQUIN PARADE "The Travel Club is behind the General Service Corps, and the General Service Corps is behind every type of patriotic work undertaken in Christchurch,’’ said Mrs Cecil Wood, president of the General Service Corps, when she was speaking at a mannequin parade held at Messrs Hay's, Ltd., last evening. The parade was arranged by the Travel Club to raise money to finance the General Service Corps, which, at art notice, will undertake any class of patriotic work, from sorting buttons to maki; g cloti i for sick and needy dependant? of service nen. Sntfrt and attractive frocks, suite, cdfsLcnsemble.s, and, hats were disPl a Mesdames Malcolm Gray. W.’WBchhnell, Fran’- Reid, Guy Cotterill, L F. J. Raines, E. Kerr, Rex Bryan, Misses Sylvia Scott, Shirley Buchanan, Correen Jewell, Monica Garlick, Frances Batten, and Ethel Neame. Songs were sung by Mr J. H. Cocks and Miss Jean Dickson, for whom Mrs Cocks was ‘accompanist, and instrumental items were played by Miss Bessie Pollard and Miss Homola Griffiths. Mr C. G. McKellar. for the Travel Club, and Mrs Wood, for the Corps, thanked‘Mr J. L. Hay and his staff for making i parade possible, the artists for the programme they had provided, the mannequins who displayed the models, and the sub-committee that served supper. .