For WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24001, 16 July 1943, Page 2

For WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs John Montgomery (Christchurch), Mrs P. R. WOOdhoUse (Bluecliffs), and Mrs J- Mowbray Tripp (Geraldine), who have been attending the annual meeting of the Red Cross Society in Wellington, returned to Christchurch yesterday. Mrs R. M. Dowsett, organising secretary to the /Wellington Free Kindergarten Association, has retired after 19 years* service. Mrs Dowsett is well known to kindergarten councils and graduates throughout the Dominion. At the annual meeting of the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society, held last evening, the president, Dr. J. Leslie Will, who presided, expressed regret at the absence, through illness, or Bishop Brodle, who, he said, had been a tower of strength to the society. The meeting expressed sympathy witn Bishop Brodie. Sister Catherine Golden (Fortrose) and Sister Elizabeth Poole (Invercargill), who for some time have served in New Zealand hospitals in the Middle East, have returned to Southland. The forty-sixth annual report of the Navy League and the twenty-sixth report of the Women's branch of the Navy League Auxiliary committee express regret at the deaths during the year of the following members:—Mr and Mrs H. D. Acland, Mr Orton Bradley, Mrs E. 0. Trerise, and Miss Steriker. Sympathy is expressed to the following members whose sons have made the supreme , sacrifice in the struggle of the British Empire and its Allies for freedom and liberty:—Mrs J. Mowbray Tripp, the Rev. Canon and Mrs A. H. Norris, Mr and Mrs John Deans, Mr and Mrs W. D.- Crombie. A strong plea that the utmost kindness should be shown to servicemen who have just returned to New Zealand from the Middle East, and that everything possible should be done to entertain them and to promote their comfort and well-being while they were in New Zealand was made by Colonel W. R. Lascelles, when speaking at the Overseas League luncheon at Ballantynes yesterday. "That is the least we can do," he added, "to show our appreciation of the grave discomforts, the terrible anxieties and the ' serious dangers they have auffereo while on active service." The annual report of the Canterburj (N.Z.) branch of the Navy League, tc be presented at the annual meeting next week, says: "The thanks of the executive are also due to Mrs Gerri van Asch and to the Spinning Circle started under her guidance only nin< months ago: it has grown and de veloped, ana now has an average dail: attendance of 20 and a monthly outpu of 271b of spun,natural wool, withou which the supply of sea boot fifooking for the Navy could not have been main tained. Canterbury farmers have sup plied generous quantities of wool fo spinning," Mrs J. S. Kelly and Mrs E C. Frater, the report continues, on be half of the league, have visited sailor in hospital and taken them comforts the personnel of visiting ships hav been entertained, the W.R.N.S. res room at Lyttelton has been furnishec curtains have been sent to W.R.N.S. ii Marlborough, and a radio, games, am an electric Jug sent to vessels needin them. Appreciation of the work done b; Miss M. V. Kennedy in the formatioi of the Crippled Girls' Club was ex pressed by Mrs Cecil Wood at th annual meeting of the Christchure branch of the New Zealand Cripple* Children Society, held last evemnj The work, so well launched by Mis Kennedy, was now being carried o: by Mrs O. Gee. The Crippled Men Club, it was reported, had a membei ship of 32; its members were Indebte to Mr D. Leckie. who conducted th club's harmonica band; to Mrs R. Fei ris who, every week, attended meet ings bf the club and played pian accompaniments, and to Miss Anns Gale, who was producer for the tilub recently formed drama circle. I giving interesting detailsi ol: her wor for crippled children and some of th sources from which the tt society are obtained, Mrs W. Macka, welfare officer for the society, sai that a man receiving an invalidity per sion had twice given a donation •< £lO to the funds of the society, an that a miner on the West Coast, wfc divided among charities all the mone he earned for overtime in the nun had in the last two years contribute about £2O to further the society work.

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OVERSEAS LEAGUE LUNCHEON MEETING »t am not saying that the war is won -for ? fully realise that Germany tTaly and Japan are still poWerfu forces-b" t if it is true that we are at the beginning of the end it is time to coSr whft we should do to preDare for peace," said Colonel W. R. Cscelles, when speakmg at a luncheon gathering arranged by the overseas Sue and hel<f yesterday at Ballantynes The mistakes made after the last war must not be repeated. The Treaty of Versailles, drawn up at a time when passions were aroused, was Colonel iasdelles said a vindictive treaty, imposing conditions mat could not be fulailed. and the real results of the last victory and peace were insecurity, unemployment, and deterioration of the governmental systems of the world. Cblonel Lascelles outlined the steps taken to carry out President Wilson's iaea of forming a League of Nations, a league noble in aspirations but poor in organisation. Now, he suggested, was the time to mould public opinion and to consider the principle of establishing a tribunal that would have the weight of power and force to enforce its decisions, a tribunal of international justice, to which litigants would come with humiltejfcmot with the weight of power* a tribunal that would have the power to put and keep aggressor nations in their place. Malta, he thought, could fittingly be created the peace centre of the .world. : "This is the greatest problem of all time," said Colonel Lascelles, "but human nature is still big enough and great enough to win through to a lasting peace worthy of the victory." Sir ft. Heatoh Rhodes thanked the speaker for his address. The president of the local branch of the Overseas League, Mr C. O. McKellar, presided at the luncheon, which was attended by more than 86 members, and With him at the Official table were the Mayoress, Miss E. Cbuzihs, and Miss E. Aitken, and Sir Heaton Rhodes, vicepresidents of the branch.