CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23801, 21 November 1942, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

At a meeting of the Mayoress’s Parcels Executive, held at the City Council Chambers yesterday morning, it was announced that, on the day of the street appeal, when the public will bp asked to “Say thank you to the Maori battalion,” a party of Maori school children from Rapaki, all wearing Maori costumes, will give a concert in Cathedral square during the lunch hour. In Victoria square, yesterday, members of the Christchurch Ladies’ Guild of the British Sailors’ Society, with the help of members of the junior branch, held a very successful sale to augment the guild’s funds. Mrs H. T. J. Thacker, president of the guild, was in charge of the stall. At the last meeting of the. Christchurch branch of the Plunket Society, Mrs J. Cracrqft Wilson presiding, a vote of sympathy with Mr H. D. Acland in the death of his wife, was passed. Mrs Acland was for many years a member of the committee and was always a loyal supporter of the society. Miss Mary McLean, organiser of the Christchurch Women’s Land Army, has received a letter, dated August 17, from Lady Suffield, Harbord House, Cromer, Northern England, advising that the "Beans for Britain” shipped to England from Christchurch last April by the Land Army had arrived at their destination and would be distributed by the British Women’s Land Area to persons in the depressed mining areas in North Britain. Travel restrictions on the railway will be waived to permit of children from outlying districts attending the Port Waikato children’s health camp, which will open on December 29. A ceremonial parade of 135 W.A.A.C.’s, who are being trained as Operators Fire Control (0.F.C.), was held in Wellington on Thursday. The ceremony marked the completion by 32 of the women of a six weeks’ intensive course at the Radio Location Wing of the School of Artillery, where they have been trained to operate radio-location sets. They will be employed in anti-aircraft batteries. For employment in private homes as domestic servants, numbers. of Rarotongan girls who have some knowledge of English and have been certified as medically fit before their departure from the islands, have been brought to New Z-aland recently. There are now about 50 of them in Wellington. This is not the first time Rarotongan girls ha\le been brought to New Zealand for service in this capacity, but since the outbreak of war (he number sought by prospective employers has increased rapidly. However. the number of suitable girls available is email. Now that you- can’t go home for lunch, remember Ethne Tosswill can provide you with a delicious lunch to take away. Call at "Ethne’s” at Hereford Court and make your own selec-, tion Something different every day.