For Woman

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23845, 14 January 1943, Page 5

For Woman

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs J. W. D. Mardon (Colombo street north), honorary secretary of the Mayoress’s Parcels Fund Executive, and of the General Service Corps, will leave Christchurch within the next few weeks to make her home at Stratford, to which town her husband has been transferred on promotion. To-morrow, eight boys, sons of men on active service, will leave Christchurch for Oxford, where they will go into camp for a fortnight’s holiday. The camp is being sponsored by the Sunlight League, which already has a camp for 60 children at Governor’s Bay. Miss Cora Wilding has arranged all details and Mrs T. A. Fleming will be in charge. All those helping at the camp are giving their services voluntarily. The camouflage net makers at “Te Wharc,” Hereford street, last week, resumed work after the holidays. Mrs H. S. Atkinson, honorary organiser, said last night that although there has been a fair attendance of excellent workers during the last week, she would welcome further help, and she would be grateful to any men or women who would spare a few hours morning or afternoon .to the making of the nets. The “Te Whare” group of workers last year completed 3300 nets. The death occurred recently of Mrs Jane Elinor Hewett, widow of the late Charles Robert Hewett. Roto-o-rangi, Cambridge. Mrs Hewett was born in Geraldine, South Canterbury, in 1809. and was the third daughter of the late Mr and Mrs William Upton Slack, Peel Forest. One of her sons, Corporal B. S. Hewett, is a prisoner of war. and the other, Pilot Officer W. U. Hewett, has been reported missing. Gifts of fruit for jam-making would be gratefully received by those in charge of the Women’s Active Services’ Club, High street. The club can, if necessary, obtain sugar for jammaking and the committee is anxious to make a supply of jam for the winter for women in the services who spend much of their leisure at the club. Vegetables, too. would be gratefully received. The Mayoress, Miss E. Couzins, will arrange that gifts left at the City Council Chambers will be delivered at the club.

Sixty delegates from all parts of the Dominion arc attending the annual conference of the Student Christian Movement, now being held in Christchurch. The women delegates are staying at the Bishop Julius Hostel, and the men at the Cathedral Grammar School. The Rev. Herbert Newell, of Wellington, is presiding at the conference and amongst speakers at the meetings are the Hon. W. E. Barnard, who will address delegates this evening, and Madame Dronkc. of Wellington, who will speak to-morrow on the function of poetry. Miss Greta Riddell, daughter of Dr. W. A, Riddell, High Commissioner for Canada in New Zealand, has been appointed travelling secretary of the movement, and will take up'her new duties this year. She succeeds the Rev. Frank Engel, who with Mrs Engel will soon leave New Zealand to live in Australia. The conference will continue till Saturday. No dry, sunburned, rough skin for you this summer. Get LEMON GLISCO, the all-lemon Skin Emollient. Sold ® ver y* where. PRIMROSE PTY.. Colombo st., Christchurch. 1 ENGAGEMENTS

The engagement is announced of Sergeant Pilot Philip Murray Sharping RN Z A.F. returned, only son of Mr and" Mrs H. O. Sharplin. Claudclands Hamilton, to Mclva Joan, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. H. Gundry. Spreydon. Christchurch.

The engagement is announced of Margaret Anne, elder daughter of the Rev, and Mrs E. E. Malden, Gust, North Canterbury, to Lieutenant Robert Lawson. N.Z.M.C.. elder son of Mrs H. M. and the late Mr R. W. Thompson, Invercargill.

NURSING SERVICES

As a review of New Zealand's nursing services with their ever-increasing difficulties, the recently-released annual report of the Director of the Division of Nursing, Miss M. Lambic, is a striking record of vitality and adaptability in dealing with new problems. It represents also a great volume of work and sustained effort of which New Zealand nurses might well be proud. In spite of the many difficulties caused by the war, progress still continues in the Dominion’s nursing services. The report mentions much restlessness among nurses during the year under review, due to a desire to undertake work having an immediate relation to the war effort. Most nurses, however, are coming to realise that in a total war effort efficient all-round nursing services on the home front are equally important to service with the fighting forces. This is particularly so where the training of the next generation of nurses is concerned. The figures quoted for obstetric training and nursing are interesting in view of the continued shortage of qualified obstetric nurses. It is shown that 281 midwives qualified during the last five years, and of these 242 Poetised for at least one year. Of the 1025 registered nurses who took the maternity course very few continued in the work; 156 previously untrained women had taken the maternity course and 110 had practised. The percentage of registered nurses who wish to specialise in obstetrics is small, so relief for the problem of staff shortage must be sought in other directions. The report shows further expansion in the public health services; occupational therapy departments in various hospitals arc proving a valuable measure in the rehabilitation of pat)ents; the course for hospital dietitians has been established: the tropical nursing service is still being maintained and has been extended to include Tonga.