CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24301, 5 July 1944, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

The youngest child of the Duchess of Kent and the late Duke of Kent, Prince Michael George Charles Franklin. was two years old yesterday. Born on Independence Day. 1942, the young Prince is a godson of President Roosevelt, who met the Royal parents in his yacht off the Bahamas while they were on their honeymoon in 1934. Less than two months after his youngest child’s birth the Duke of Kent was killed in an aircraft accident in the north of Scotland. Prince Michael’s brother, Edward, born in November, 1935, is the new Duke of Kent, and his sister. Princess Alexandria, was born in December. 1936. Prince Michael is sixth in succession to the Throne.

At the annual meeting of the Vocational Guidance Centre Girls’ Advisory Committee held yesterday afternoon the following officers were elected:—chairwoman -Miss R. P. Karsten; deputy-chairwoman Miss M. Enright; honorary secretary. Mrs J. A, Crawford; minute secretary. Miss T. Wakslin; committee. Misses Karsten. Enright, M Samuel M. Kennedy. E. M. Bachelor, and M McLean.

Miss F. M. Hind, who has been head teacher of the Karori West School for 12 years, has retired from the teaching profession. At a social gathering she received a presentation from residents and former pupils The chairman of the school committee (Mr W. J. Wilson) said that Miss Hind had won the affection of all pupils and the esteem of parents She was the only woman teacher in the whole of New Zealand to be in charge of a school of the size of Karori West, which was a testimony to her ability as a teacher and her ability to control a large school.

Miss Gwenda Norman-Jones, formerly of the staff of the ‘Evening Post," Wellington, was married in London to Major Edward Whitty. Royal Tank Regiment R.A.C., of Somerset. Major Whitty who was a mining engineer before the war. served with the Cairo Cavalry Brigade in Syria in 1939, and afterwards with the 7th Armoured Division (the “Desert Rats”) throughout the desert campaigns up to Tunis. He helped to clear the road for the withdrawal of the New Zealand Divisional Cavalry at Thermopylae. Ho has been wounded twice While her husband is on military duty Mrs Whitty will continue to work in the prisoners of war section of New Zealand House,

Advice received by the University of New Zealand from the British Council notifies that a special scholarship for women competed for in 1943 has been awarded to Miss A. K. Caughley Miss Caughley is a graduate in arts of the University of New Zealand, having completed her master’s degree in English in 1938. She took the course at Victoria and Canterbury University Colleges and has since had experience of teaching at Masterton, Wellington, and Christchurch. The special subject in which she has elected to do research while in Britain is speech therapy.—(P.A.) To celebrate three festivals —Canada’s Dominion Day which fell on Saturday, the United States Independence Day yesterday, and Mexico's National Day to-day—the North American Club he'n an evening carnival at the National Club Rooms last evening. The gathering was a record success, almost all the invited guests being present. Among these were members of the newly formed Christchurch branch of the English Sneaking Union The visitors were welcomed by the president of the club, Mr H. S. Vestey. and short addresses were given by the Mayoress, Miss E. Couzins. and the Consular Agent for the United States Mr H. P. Bridge. Games and dancing provided entertainment tor the guests.

At the monthly meeting yesterday of the women’s section of the Christchurch Returned Services’ Association, held in the Jellicoe Hall, a report was received from Mrs Trevor Stringer, who has commenced her duties as almoner for wives and children of overseas servicemen. Members of the committee signified their willingness to help the Christchurch Returned Services’ Association in Its street appeal this month by staffing a corner and serving tea for helpers. It was also decided to take the afternoon tea and ten at the Welcome Club at the end of July, and to hold a bring and buy sale in Jellicoe Hall early in August,

Regret at the unexpected death in Tauranga of Mrs J. H. Hall, a life member of the Navy League, and formerly a vice-president and a member of the committee of the Christchurch women’s branch of the league, was expressed at the monthly meeting of the branch held yesterday. Mrs Wyatt, who presided, said that Mrs Hall had been greatly interested in the work of the league, and was a generous contributor to its funds. Private advice has been received in Christchurch of the death in Melbourne this week of Miss May Peak, formerly matron of “Thi Limes” Private Hospital, Cambridge terrace. Miss Peak had many friends in the nursing and medical professions in Christchurch. Her two sisters live in Melbourne. At a meeting of the Christchurch women's branch of the Navy League, held yesterday morning, the president. Mrs H. Wyatt, reported that the branch had received from the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club a donation of £SO for the miantenance of its work, and that a small girl, a pupil of the Linwood Avenue School, had saved her pocket money till she had the sum of 10s 6d, which she had forwarded to the branch. Last month, it was stated, had been particularly busy in the wool room and in other departments. More than 200 woollen garments had been received, and still more knitters were needed. Splendid work, Mrs Wyatt said, was being done by the spinning circle. An anonymous gift of £I4OO from “Two Friends” has been received by the missions committee of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, to be devoted to the mission activities of the Church. The committee has also received a gift of £6OO for the reduction of the debt on the Turakina Maori Girls’ College. The twenty-seventh annual report of the New Zealand Nurses’ Memorial Fund (Inc.) compares the position of the fund with that 25 years ago. In the 1919 report the capital amount ol the fund was £5750. Since then it has increased from legacies and donations to £41.000 and the number of annuitants to 39. The total amount distributed to dale is about £26.500. During the year the fund benefited again from the generous help of nurses’ associations to the amount of £1232, of which £4OO came from Wairoa, £177 from Oamaru, £IOO from Auckland, and £SO from Balclutha. The sum of £SOO was received in legacies, and a donation of £SO was received from the trustees of the D E. Theomln estate. The growth of the capital fund is a matter of importance, as the falling rates of interest affect the income seriously. The Fendalton Red Cross sub-centre will be holding Shop Day to-day in the new Red Cross Shop in Gloucester street, next the State Theatre. —1

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