For WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24095, 3 November 1943, Page 5

For WOMEN

(-UKKEJST NOTES

, Canterbury Womens Club 4 ,fah its comforts circle with the the arts and crafts and bridge 6 m V’ v,ac given donations to the fol f organisations: Children’s Fresh 1 lo *tfnme £2. to be spent on books; iv children Society. £2: parcel :? genital in the Pacific. £3; women’s for .- n 0 n P of the Returned Services' As£4; Christchurch Ladies ft®? .*’ the British Sailors’ Society « club will also sup Ty the Eng- £(■ I “Punch," to the plastic Kr??!unit at Burwood for one year Sri Sfflerable sum has been distrisSaWv^1 ’ P atriotic work during the JRjr, l f ~ic c E L Wilkin (Dunedin) Mrs O , roan ' (Greymouth). Mesdames : Eidmas and F Curtis (Ashburton) .‘fj Mowbray Tripp 'Geraldine) Mills (Waimate) Mesdames Rus- *' snfi n g E. A. Scott, and Bowen (Til Miss R. Macdonald (Oamaru) gSr** G. Havelaar (chai-woman) * JPjqmes J. G. L. Vernon John Mont- * Srv Douglas Macfarlane and Miss f navies (Christchurch) will attend I L quarterly meeting of the South Isr«<rVAD’s. which will be held m Christchurch to-day, Mrs William Deans (Darfield) is visInvercargill to attend a meeting If the Council of Women’s Institutes to open there to-day The Wellington Hospital Board has Jhp these appointments;— Surgical Hsistrar, Hutt Valley hospital. Dr Jean uSandeb junior surgical registrar, : ffollington, Dr, Eunice Maclean; medial registrar, Hutt Valley. Dr Eleanor Sker-McLaglan; junior medical regis “ Bfi Wellington. Dr. C. S Preston The Canterbury Women’s Club Mdse circle, directed by Mrs J. P Sckard, last evening held a very sucKssful bridge party in aid of the club’s Parities. One hundred and thirty iiiests were present, and a considerable jin was realised for early distribution The Mayor of Christchurch (Mr E. 0 Andrews) acknowledges receipt of £lO from Mrs A. I. Rattray, proceeds U the sale of sprigs of heather for jomterts for prisoners of war. Miss M. Thurston, formerly lady lunerintendent of the Christchurch Hospital and matron-in-chief during |e last war, writing in Septembei IromNew Zealand House. Strand. Lon don to Mrs J. L. Hay, Riccarton, sends 1 message to all members of the Over uas Women War Workers' Association in Christchurch. She writes “I have ust received your wonderful parcel ol mtter and honey, two delicious delicacies and greatly appreciated It is mod to be remembered and links us Fpre strongly together in all our interests and war work. I am happy to tell lyou that I have made great progress in regaining my strength, and so am able to get about again—among those thal need me. I am sure you must all be very proud of all that our ‘Kiwis’ are doing and suffering to bring back freedom to the world.” Miss Thurston, who was ill for six months, sends kindest remembrances to all her friends in Christchurch. “We are indebted to many persons outside our organisation who have helped us in many ways,’ writes Mis? Mary McLean, organiser of the Women’s Voluntary Land Army, in her Itmual report. “Land has been lent Bwc particularly wish to L Hunt, of Waipara. for the lorse for one year, and Mr ims for the gift o r a trap " an expressed regret at the .w-ftv.cv.u., of two members. Mrs A Schumacher and Miss Gertrude Islip whose help is greatly missed, and thanks Miss Wilkinson for her help with dehydrating and secretarial work, and Mrs E. Cameron Smith for her work in the Army’s garden in Bealev avenue, The following recent donations have been received for the Mayoress’s Parcels Fund: Travel Club, £146; Mrs E E, Roberts, £37 10s; Miss Ellen, Knitling Circle, £3; Licensed Victuallers’ Association, £186; Canterbury Rugby football Union, £l4 9s 4d. The lady editor of “The Press" ratefully acknowledges receipt of Hitting needles from Mrs E S Britlenden and “East Anglia.” woollen comforts for men on North Sea minesweepers from “Anon.” and woollen laments from “Anonymo..s."