For WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23848, 18 January 1943, Page 2

For WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES

Flying Officer Clara Lee, the only woman doctor in the medical branch of the Royal New Zealand Air Force has been promoted to flight lieutenant.

Between 500 and 600 men of the armed forces were entertained at the Welcome Club, Lichfield street, on Saturday and again yesterday by members of the club’s executive. On Saturday night a dance was held, and yesterday evening a concert programme, arranged by Mrs R. J. McLaren and Miss Bessie Pollard, was provided and supper was. served by members of the Elmwood Croquet Club.

The lady editor of “The Press would be grateful for gifts of bathing trunks for some of the 62 small boys at present in the Sunlight League’s health camp at Cholmondeley Home, Governor’s Bay. On Saturday the boys were taken, by bus from Christchurch to the camp, arriving in time for a hot midday dinner. The 60 girls who had been in camp for a fortnight were served with, a picnic lunch, and in the early afternoon were brought to Christchurch, where they were met by an official of the Sunlight League, who saw that all, including the country children, were dispatched to their homes. All the children had improved in health by the holiday. The greatest increase in weight in the fortnight was 3£lb and there had been complete freedom from even minor ills. Yesterday. Dr. D. E. Currie, president of the Sunlight League, accompanied by Mrs Currie, visited the camp, and was greatly pleased with all the arrangements made for the benefit of the children under the care of Matron Smithers and Sister Barter. •

The commissioning of 45 officers of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force is announced in the latest Gazette. All have the rank of assistant section officer.

Motions of sympathy with Mrs F. C. Newton in the death of her father, Mr H. G. Youngman, and with the Jacobson family in their anxiety, with the hope that they would soon receive good news, were passed at the January meeting of the Akaroa Women’s Institute.

Miss B. J. P. Cox, supervisor at the Invercargill telephone exchange, left on Saturday for Palmerston North on promotion.

During her recent visit to England, Mrs Roosevelt was photographed with the three children she has “adopted under the children's colony scheme in Hertfordshire, founded to allow American foster-parents to help war children. The children are Janina Dybowska (Poland), aged 17, Kerman Garale (Spain), aged 14. and Tommy Maloney (East End of London), aged 5.

Yesterday the Salvation Army held special jubilee services in Hastings to honour Adjutant Lamberton, who has given 50 years of service as an officer of the Salvation Army, and- also for Commandant Felham, who has been associated with Adjutant Lamberton for 47 years. As a schoolgirl Adjutant Lamberton attended the first meetings of the Salvation Army at Reefton in 1888, and has since served in Australia and New Zealand. Sergeant Thomas Conlan, of the United States forces, last week married Elizabeth Izat by radio telephone. Conlan. in a West of England town, was beside the chaplain, who read the service to Miss Izat in Washington. The couple followed the service by a two-way radio “hook-up” in which the 8.8.C. co-operated. This is believed to be the first radio wedding between a member of the United States forces overseas and a bride in America.

The National Institute for the Blind states that more than 600 blind persons have recently been given posts in British war industries, and it is hoped to double the number in the next two months. A firm of aero engine builders which is employing blind men as capstan operators, lathe turners, and burr fliers intends to take on more, having found them to possess great powers of concentration and a very delicate sense of touch.

The Mayoress of Brighton, England, who is starting a club for British wives and sweethearts of Canadian soldiers, discovered that considerably more than 7000 Sussex girls have married Canadian soldiers.

Miss Joan Nalder, daughter of Captain and Mrs A. McC. Nalder, Wellington, and formerly attached to the School Dental Clinic at Waimate. has received a commission in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force, with the rank of Air Section Officer. Miss Nalder, who holds a Diploma of Dentistry from the New Zealand Dental College, served with the Women’s Australian Auxiliary Air Force for 10 months as a dental orderly, and was the first from this section to take the officers’ training course. Miss Nalder left New Zealand in December, 1941. for England, but war conditions prevented her from continuing her journey, so she re T mained in Australia and joined the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force.

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