for WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23940, 6 May 1943, Page 2

for WOMEN

CUKKENT NOTES

Miss P. Haylock, who has been infant mistress at the Anama School for more than four years, has been appointed to the staff of the Addington School, and will commence duties there after the May holidays. A Warm tribute to the work done by Mrs A. N. Grigg, M.P., was paid by Miss Mabel Howard, M.P., yesterday afternoon, when she was speaking at the annual meeting of the Home Service Association. Mrs Grigg, Miss Howard said, was wholeheartedly in favour of any movement for the welfare of women; there was no thought of party politics with her if she could benefit the community. “To me, personally, as a new member of Parliament,” Miss Howard continued, “Mrs Grigg was most kind and helpful. I greatly regset that she is not seeking re-election, ard I hope she will soon be fully restored to health, and that she will again enter Parliament.” The Christchurch branch of the Lady Galway Guild is preparing to forward another supply of warmer clothing to England for distribution to needy persons and will bo pleased to receive gifts of suitable garments or material. The rooms are open from 12 noon until 4 p.m. every Wednesday and Friday. The Mayoress, Miss E. Couzins. has already received a generous response to her appeal for cigarettes for distribution to returned servicemen in hospital. Recently she received an anonymous donation of £l, and she has also received gifts or donations from the comforts circle of the Canterbury Women’s Club, members of the Townswomen’s Guild, and from many other friends. “The only thing in this world I am really afraid of is a cow," said Miss Mabel Howard, M.P., speaking yesterday at the annual meeting of the Home Service Association. “And many of the girls who have joined the Land Service were as scared of cows as I am, but they overcame their fears and gallantly undertook work on farms.” She added that it was not generally known that women on leaving the services—including the land service—were entitled to the same privileges under the Rehabilitation Scheme as were men. They could, for instance, borrow, without interest, money with which to buy a home or a business. With regard to the reference in the association’s annual report of girls being directed by the manpower authorities from domestic work into factories. Miss Howard said she was hopeful that a woman would soon be appointed to the Industrial Manpower Committee, which, at present comprised three men. A motion of sympathy with Mrs Ross Macdonald, retiring president of the Home Service Association, in the recent death of her mother, was passed at the annual meeting of the association, held yesterday afternoon. The Mayoress; Miss E. Couzins, who oresided. said that Mrs Macdonald herself was not in good health, and a motion was carried expressing the wish that she would make t speedy and complete recovery and recording the appreciation of the association for the excellent work she had carried out in its interests. Miss G. Widdowson, lady superintendent of the Christchurch Hospital, appeals to spinners of wool to give her a small quantity of wool from which to make leggings for infantile paralysis patients in the hospital. Miss Widdowson, realises that the spinners are busy working for the men and women in the services, but she says her need is great and urgent. The locally-spun wool is so warm and soft that it is ideal for protecting the limbs of patients who, for health reasons, spend most of their time on the balconies at the hospital. She has many knitters, including some patients in the hospital, willing to knit the leggings, but she cannot get the wool. If each, qf the spinners would spare her even a skein she would be most grateful, as she has more than 30 sufferers from infantite paralysis under her care and is most? anxious to provide them with warm leggings. At the annual meeting of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, held last evening, the Rev. I. L. Richards, who presided, referred with deep regret to the illness of Bishop Brodie, who for many years has taken a keen interest in the society’s work, “This is the first meeting his Lordship has missed for a long time,” said Mr Richards, and on his suggestion it was decided to send to Bishop Brodie a letter of sympathy from the meeting. A vote of sympathy with Mrs F. Biltcliff, a life member of the society, in her long illness was also passed. No dry. chapped, rough skin for you this winter—Get Lcmon-Glisco, the all-Lemon Skin emollient —Sold everywhere—Cook and Ross, Ltd., Colombo street, Christchurch. —1