CANTERBURY WOMEN’S CLUB

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23800, 20 November 1942, Page 2

CANTERBURY WOMEN’S CLUB

PATRIOTIC WORK REVIEWED The annual report of the Canterbury Women’s Club, presented at the annual meeting last night, reviewed the various branches of patriotic work carried out by members during the year. It said that members had helped at the Women’s Active Services’ Club, in the sale of health stamps, in collecting for soldiers’ parcels on Flag Day, in providing tea at the Welcome Club in packing patriotic parcels, in sewing mattress covers for camps, in net-mak-ing, in spinning, and in the making of surgical equipment from papier mache. The club, with a membership of 325, has 11 circles, each of which contributed to patriotic funds; the comforts circle completed 1095 garments for men of the services, and donations were sept- to aTmost every society in Christchurch that is doing social work. Hospitality was offered to the wives and mothers of men and women missing in Japanese-occupied territory. At the,annual meeting last night the retiring president. Mrs R. J. McLaren, was presented with a gift of Dresden china, and Mesdames H. Wyatt and Stephen Parr and Miss M. Spence, on behalf of members, thanked her for her devotion to duty during the six years she had held office, and expressed appreciation of the originality of her ideas. After the business meeting, short sketches of the lives of winners of the Nobel prizes were read by members. Officers were elected as follows: — President, Mrs A. E. G. Lyttle; vicepresidents, Mesdames J. P. Rickard, G. H. Watts, and E. E. Weston: committee. Mesdames S. G. Ayling. J. C. Cullman, A. C. Sandston, Misses R. Stewart, A. M. Ward, and Mrs H. B. Whitta.