For WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23859, 30 January 1943, Page 2

For WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES

Miss Dorothy Helmrich, the Australian singer, who is visiting the South Island, will leave Christchurch to-day for Wellington. Miss Phyllis Jean Moon, youngest daughter of Mrs Jane Moon, Christchurch, was married at St. Mark s Church, Wellington, last week to Lieutenant Jack Enoch Clark, of the United States Naval Reserve, son of Mrs Olive Clark, of Ivanston,. Illinois, U.S.A. At the quarterly meeting of the Otago and Southland Health Camp Central Council, held in Dunedin, this week, it was stated that a grant of £SOO had been received from the J. R. McKenzie Trust to be used by the council to assist in maintaining children for three months at the Roxburgh camp. There has been a satisfactory response in Dunedin to the call for land girls, and 55 applicants have registered for the Women’s Land Service. These girls, with one exception, have been found positions in Otago on sheep farms, dairy farms, and orchards, while four of them have been employed at Outram growing vegetables under the scheme arranged by the Department of Agriculture. The Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, Mr J. H. Rhodes, Major J. W. Crampton and Mrs Crampton, Lieutenant F. Rudd and Mrs Rudd. Mr and Mrs B. J. McKenna, Mrs T, E. Wiltshire, Mr E. J. Rose, Mrs M. Cordy, Mrs M. Gay, Miss Conway, Miss J. Pegler, Miss C. Cruden, Mrs A. Drew, and Mr J. B. Pye will visit Dunedin for the jubilee celebrations of the St. John Ambulance Brigade next week. They will leave Christchurch for Dunedin on Wednesday. Mrs G. S. Cammell and Mrs F. Turner will represent the Auckland district, and among Wellington visitors will be Mr Charles Falconer and Mr Keith Falconer. A one-time resident of Singapore, Mrs Kenneth Wilton, who returned to New Zealand with her small daughter shortly before the invasion of Malaya by the Japanese, has for the last year been engaged in war work in Wellington, testing gauges and other apparatus in the Government Laboratory in connexion with munitions. She hopes to sail for Sydney soon, on her way to Northern Rhodesia, whore her husband will take up an appointment in the Colonial Service. The lady editor of “The Press" gratefully acknowledges receipt of boxes of vegetables from the Sunlight League Gardening Circle and from Mr Charles Clark for , the children at the league’s health camp at Governor’s Bay The monthly meeting of the Fendalton sub-centre of the Red Cross wll be held on Monday at 2.15 p.m. at St. Barnabas' schoolroom. —1 WEDDING CAKES Ethne Tosswill is happy to be able to announce that she still has stocks available of everything recessary for the complete Wedding Cake. Order yours early at Ethne TosswilTs. 123 A Cashel street. —6 ENGAGEMENTS The engagement is announced of Kathleen Alice, only daughter of Mr and Mrs C. R. Thorpe. Buckley’s road. to Sapper Maxwell Kemp Fraser 2nd N.Z.E.Z.. youngest son of Mrs and the late Mr R. J. Fraser. River road New Brighton. Mr and Mrs C. S. Verity, Cave, announce the engagement of their daughter Anne to Mervyn, son of Mr and Mrs C. V Kirke. Fairlie. Mr and Mrs E. J. Tucker, Ashburton, announce the engagement of their elder daughter Elizabeth, and Corporal Wallace Cate, elder son of Mr and Mrs E. W. Cate, Culverden. The engagement is announced of Daphne May, second daughter of Mr and the late Mrs L. E, Hill, Dunsandel. to Raymond Edgar, N.Z.A.S.C., only son of Mr and Mrs E. Dunstan, Shirley PTUART HOUSE BURSARIES The Council of Stuart House, a residential college in Dunedin, is offering three bursaries, of the value of £llO per annum, to approved girls between the ages of 16 and 19 years, who have completed three, and preferably four years post-primary education. The year's course will consist of the following:—(1) Domestic work—cleaning, helping in the kitchen, sole charge cooking—in Stuart House and its branches of an average of from 28 to 32 hours a week; (2) each girl will.be required to take at least one regular course of study of a more academic nature: (3) arrangements will be made whereby some time will be spent observing the actual work involved in various vocations open to girls, such as at the kindergarten and pre-school centre. Karitane hospital, primary and special schools, public hospital and commercial and industrial concerns. The course is designed to help girls who are undecided as to their future occupation, either- by reason of being too young or because they are not familiar with the various 'openings for girls and the exact nature of the various occupations. WOMEN’S DIVISION OF FARMERS’ UNION ; Halswell.—At the January meeting of the Halswell branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers' Union, the president. Mrs Chapman, reported on the knitting clone for the Merchant Navy and the branch made a further donation towards the cost of the wool. Health papers were read, and also extracts and i pointers from a recent demonstration given by Miss Cocks-Johnston on the growing and preserving of fruits and vegetables. and a resume of a talk on food conservation by Mrs Gillingham. Arrangements were made for a waste metal drive to be held at an early date. THINK OF FURNITURE. THINK OF DRAGES. FURNISH AT DRAGES. The Home of Quality Furniture for Bedroom Suites Dining Room Suites, Lounge Room Suites, Easy Chairs. Radios Down Quilts. Carpets and all Furniture and Furnishings. Drages Co. Ltd., “Home Planning Centre,” cr Manchester, and Tuam streets D 1641-1