CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23997, 12 July 1943, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

To raise funds for continuing its work, particularly patriotic activities, the Sunlight League held an enjoyable bridge and mah-jongg party in the Catholic Women’s League rooms, Cashel street, on Saturday afternoon. Prizes, given by Misses E. Bull and Effie White, were won by Mrs E. G. McCullough (contract), Mrs L. J. Hunter (auction), and Mrs E. M. Dunn (mah-jongg). Mrs John Montgomery (chairwoman of the league’s health camp committee), who presided, thanked guests for their support of the league, and also the many friends who had sent donations to the fund. Mesdames H. A. Nutt, I. L. M. Coop, J. H, Doak. R. W. Ensor, A. Duff, M. E. Orchard, and R. H. Howell will leave to-morrow for the annual Dominion Executive conference of the Women’s Division of the Farmers Union to be held in Wellington. The Marshland and Ouruhia War Workers entertained 250 men of tne armed forces for tea at the Welcome Club on Saturday night, when members of the women’s committee of the Douglas Social Credit Movement served supper. On Sunday some 350 men were entertained at afternoon tea, tea, and supper by the Sanitarium Health Food Company, and the concert programme was arranged by Miss Naare Hooper. Miss Margaret Walker Alves, who, after being awarded a diploma in French at the college of the Sorbonne in Paris, taught for many years at the Otago Girls* High School, died recently at the age of 82 years. Since her retirement in 1916, her activities in Dunedin included membership of the Hospital Guild, the Otago branch of the BibL-in-Schools League, and the Otago University Women’s Association. ' Miss Margaret Trask, who nursed In Egypt, India, Mesopotamia, on the hospital ship Divana, and at Trentham Hospital during the last war, died recently in Wellington. She was trained as a nurse at New Plymouth, and .with her sister, Miss Hetty Trask, also a nurse, she opened a private hospital in Palmerston North in 1923, and later a convalescent home in Wellington Until recently she was a well-known Red Cross worker. Mrs Maud Elizabeth Caccia Birch died suddenly at her home in Marton recently. Born in 1868, at Guernsey. Channel Islands, she was the second daughter of Mr William Keiller, and after her marriage in 1897, she settled in New Zealand. During the last war the did much war work in London and Hornchurch. The New Zealand National Party Christchurch South Electorate A Meeting of Members, Friends, and Supporters of the New Zealand National Party will be held it St Nicholas Sunday School Room Barrington street -opposite Milton street! on Wednesday -iext July 14. 1943 at 8 p.m An address will be given by Mr K. Kavanagh H C Smith. Convener. —1 SOLDIERS’ PARCELS. For the next few weeks Ethne Toss will is delighted to inform the pub lie that she is able to supply some Soldiers’ Parcels. Call HEREFORD COURT (or by letter)