For WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23915, 6 April 1943, Page 2

For WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES

Members of the Fendalton Garden Club decided at their last meeting to send a donation of £6 6s to the United Nations Fair.

The matron of the Cashmere Sanatorium gratefully acknowledges receipt of lavender bags from the North Canterbury centre of the Red Cross Society, and books and magazines from Miss M. V. Chapman: for the freshair home, a birthday cake from Mrs Thian, books from Mr Bell, fruit from Mr Scolter and Mr Stenning, and a stamp collection from Mrs Fletcher.

One of the three women doctors in the Australian Army Medical Corps, Major L. Laurie, is on leave in Auckland, and is staying with her sister, Miss Alison Laurie, of Mount Albert, says the “New Zealand Herald.” Major Laurie was born in New Zealand, but has spent most of her life in Australia. She joined the Medical Corps nine months ago. She is attached as a pathologist to the 102 nd General Hospital at Tamwovth. New South Wales. Major Laurie said she had wanted to go overseas with a medical unit, but the policy of the Australian authorities was not to allow women doctors to serve abroad.

The lady editor of "The Press” gratefully acknowledges receipt of the sum of £1 Is for men on British minesweepers, from “A Sailor’s Daughter.” Mrs Harris presided at the annual meeting of the Belfast sub-centre of the Red Cross Society, which was attended by Mrs Smith and “Miss New Zealand.” The report stated that during the year a spinal chair had been given to the Christchurch Hospital, £lO had ben given to the Prisoners of War Parcels Fund. £5 to the Wairarapa Earthquake Relief Fund, and 155 garments had been made, and together with a quantity of crockery, had been sent to the Christchurch depot. Officers elected were;— President. Mrs C. M. Harris: vice-presidents, Mesdames A. Rogers and R. Rogers; secretary, Mrs J. Martin; treasurer, Mrs W. C. Tritt; committee, Mesdames C. Arps, E. Baynton, S. Clare, S. Farquhar, J. Forrest. G. Salt, E. T. Wilson, and W. Sellars and Miss Rogers. In Hamilton and the surrounding district, the problem of assistance in the home has been partly solved by the Women’s War Service Auxiliary, which has set out to help servicemen and their families. A Home Services’ Bureau has’ been established, with conveners in all parts of the town and district. When the wife of a soldier in camp becomes ill, and the bureau is informed,, a woman; is sent along to help in the household. All the work is done voluntarily and unostentatiously, and is of inestimable value in alleviating the anxieties of the servicemen and relieving distress in their families. The auxiliary is operating on the principle that the safety and care of families in such circumstances will have a profound effect on the morale of the fighting services.

“The appreciation of the war work being done by the Salvation Army will live on, as it did following the last war,” said Commissioner J. Evan Smith at a meeting held in Dunedin recently t6 celebrate the diamond jubilee of the Salvation Army in New Zealand. Major-General Weir had recently told how, 27 years ago, after coming out of the front line at Gallipoli, tired, footsore, and dirty, he met a Salvation Army officer who gave him a tube of toothpaste and wrote a letter for him. “It was only a small thing, but it is those small things which remain with one for keeps,” he had said.

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