For WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24150, 8 January 1944, Page 2

For WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES

The Mayor of Christchurch (Mr E. H. Andrews) and the Mayoress (Miss E. Couzins), who have been spending a few days in Invercargill, will returp north to-day. Miss Janet Williams, W.A.A.F. (Gisborne), is visiting her mother, Mrs J. H. Williams, Heaton street.

One nurse. Sister Myra S. Atkinson, Temuka, and seven W.A.A.C. V.A.’s, who have completed two years of hospital duty in the Middle East, have returned to New Zealand. The V.A.’s are Privates L. M. Beetham (Masterton). Audrey Catchpole (Auckland), Winifred Quin (Hawera), Theona Rose (Palmerston North), Ria Mason (Kelburn), Ailecn Walker (Papatoetoe), and M. Townsend, whose husband is in the Middle East.

Gifts recently received for the Sunlight League health camps at Sumner and the South Brighton School include a parcel of clothing from the Scfton Junior Red Cross, 15 dozen eggs from an anonymous friend, and jam from “W.A.” The 36 children who have been in residence at the Cholmondeley Memorial Children’s Home, Governor’s Bay, have now been replaced by a second group of children, who are enjoying the good weather on the beach.

The death was announced recently from England of Mrs Ross De Costa, formerly Miss Ethel Benjamin, of Dunedin. Mrs De Costa, who was educated at the Otago Girls’ High School, and later at the University of Otago, where she took her degree in law, was the first woman lawyer in New Zealand. She was interested in the foundation of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, and was present at the first meeting, held in Dunedin on March 1, 1899. She acted for some time as one of the honorary solicitors of the society. Mrs De Costa had been living for some years in the south of France, and made her way to England after the German occupation. Her death was the result of a street accident.

Mrs Emily Jane Magdalene Stuart Moore, whose death occurred in Blenheim this week, was the last surviving daughter of the late Dr. W. D. Stuart-Munro, an Indian Army doctor who 67 years ago took up practice at Wellington. Mrs Moore arrived in New Zealand at the age of nine years as a passenger with her parents in the clipper ship Crusader. She was educated at Miss Greenwood’s private school in Wellington, and later went to Marlborough to take up duties as a governess. She married Mr Daniel George Moore. The work of famous women painters was exhibited recently m New York City in an unusual display ranging from Rosa Bonheur to Kaethe Kollwitz. a German artist who was persecuted by the Nazis and whose whereabout are not now known. Angelica Kauffman, English artist of Swiss descent, was represented by "Two Nymphs.” Mary Cassctt, an American artist, was represented by “Mother and Child.” In the same week another New York gallery housed a modest exhibition of egg tempera paintings and drawings by Hedda Sterne, a refugee artist from Rumania. And in Chicago, Mrs Maude Phelps Hutchins, sculptor and painter, exhibited some of her drawings—a collection of hands, feet, and heads. Wife of Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, she works daily in the garage loft which is her studio.

A surprising response was made by men and women of the armed forces in New Zealand and the Pacific to a scheme originated last year by the Army Education Welfare Service and the National Broadcasting Service to give service personnel the opportunity to express their latent literary talent. Entries for a competition for radio play?, short stories, descriptive sketches, narrative poems and lyric peoms, closed on December 1. Prizes offered ranged up to 20 guineas. The lyric poem section attracted 142 entries, while 40 entered narrative poems. There were 83 short stories, 39 descriptive sketches, and 39 radio plays. IN a norae such as yours, where economy has pride of place, you can never afford to be without STEVENS ‘Cathedral 1 ' Brand FLAVOURING ESSENCES These are economy essences because such a little is needed to give a true, delicious flavour Every drop flavours when you bake with STEVENS "Cathedral” Brand FLAVOURING ESSENCES, obtainable at all stores —2

ENGAGEMENTS

The engagement is announced of Harry, second son of Mr and Mrs H. Milbank, Onehunga. to Nancy Gladys, only daughter of Mr and the late Mrs G. Low, Shirley.

The engagement is announced of Joy Broughton, elder daughter of W. 0.11 W. J. Watson and Mrs Watson, to Clifford Benjamin, second son of Mr and Mrs O. N. Thomas, New Plymouth.

The engagement is announced of Pilot Officer Warren Alisler Blain, youngest son of Mrs and the late Mr T. J. Blain, “Hcalhcrlea,” Oxford, North Canterbury, and Heather Murray (Hett). only daughter of Mrs and the late Mr J. B. Goodall, Te Kowhai, Hamilton, North Island.