CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24676, 20 September 1945, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Sir Patrick Duff. High Commissioner in New Zealand for the United Kingdom, and Lady Duff, will leave Christchurch by aeroplane to-day for Dunedin, where they will be accorded a civic welcome on Friday morning. This evening Sir Patrick Duff will address a meeting of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce and the Otago-Southland Manufacturers’ Association, and he and Lady Duff will attend a community singing session at midday to-mor-row.

Miss Phyllis Mander, who will take the part of Leonora in the opera “II Trovatore,” which will be the opening production of the music festival week, will leave immediately after the opera season closes to continue her studies in England. There will be only one matinee during the festival. That will be next Saturday, beginning at 2 p.m., when “II Trovatore" will be presented. Special concessions in prices will be made for school children. Miss C. E. Robinson, vocational guidance officer for girls, is once again receiving appeals from young girls asking her to help them in securing board and lodging in the city. Two college students are urgently in need of accommodation, and Miss Robinson would be pleased to hear from anyone who would take them as boarders. She would also like to hear of suitable accommodation for young girls who are working in Christchurch, Twenty-five delegates from women’s clubs from Auckland to Invercargill are attending a conference of the New Zealand Federation of Women’s Clubs, which opened in Wellington yesterday. It is the first since 1940. Yesterday afternoon the delegates attended a flower show in the Wellington Town Hall; a reception in their honour was held at the Pioneer Club last night, and another will be held at the Lyceum Club this afternoon. Under the will of Flying Officer A. P. Fogerty, who met his death off Waiheke Island on March 3 last while on active service with the Royal New Zealand Air Force, a bequest of £IOO is made to Auckland University* College for the purchase of books for the library of the economics department of the college. The Public Trustee is executor of the will.

No fewer than 26 vacancies for nrobationer nurses exist at Seaview Mental Hospital, Hokitika, the staff shortage, which has been grave for some years, having become worse. This is the result of sickness, among the present staff, marriages, and the return of husbSnds of nurses from overseas. The death has occurred in Auckland of Mrs Mary Turner Leyland, ager 87, widow of Mr B. Leyland, who was for many years associatod with the Leyland, O’Brien Timber Company. Ltd. Mrs Leyland was born in Lancashire, where she married Mr Leyland in 1877, coming with him to New Zealand two years later. Miss Pat Russell, B.H.Sc., of Dunedin. has been appointed to the staff of the Dairy Research Institute at Massey Agricultural College. In a recent speech, Mrs Winston Churchill said that on her visit to Russia this year she was struck by the fact that in hospitals there she met far more women surgeons than male surgeons. It was explained to her that women were more adroit with, their hands than men. and so the majority of the female medical students went in for surgery. The following were successful in examinations conducted recently by the Red Cross Society:—Third Bar First Aid (West Eyreton): Frances Horrell, Dorothy Horrell. First Bar First Aid (West Evreton): Constance Harding. Marion Harding. Intermediate First Aid (West Eyreton): Edna Maxey. Mr B. Rolls. Elementary First Aid (West Eyreton): Rosemary Doak, Frances Horn, Joyce Reid, Peggy Reid, Avenal Woodfield, Mr T. Woodfield. Mr B. McIntosh. Advanced First Aid (Cheviot); Una Bush, Frances Childs. Intermediate First Aid (Cheviot): Elizabeth Robinson. Elementary First Aid (Cheviot): Beth Powis, Joan Jackman, Hilary Cooper

At a party for Dutch children in Holland, giyen by members of the Navy, said Lieutenant F. Bodley, at an English-Speaking Union luncheon this' week in Wellington, there was New Zealand honey, a gift from the Old Girls’ Association of Woodford House, which he had received when in England. Lieutenant Bodley said he desired to express thanks on behalf of the Navy and of the children of Holland to the association for its gift. The low fluorine content of most New Zealand water supplies has a definite effect on the incidehce of dental decay, according to a report made to the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry by Mr G. Chamberlain, of the Dominion Laboratory, Wellington, Research workers overseas, he said, had found that where the amount of fluorine in a water supply was high there was a decrease in dental decay. Most water in New Zealand was low in flucfrine, except some North Island mineral waters. Unfortunately none of these waters was used as a public supply. Many famous airmen were present at the reception in Park Lane, London, after the marriage at a registry office of Wing Commander Alan Deere, of Wanganui, to Miss Joan Fenton, of Harrogate." Wing Commander Deere had flown and fought with the majority of them. Nearly 100 guests were received by the bride’s parents, including many New Zealanders. The best man was Flight Lieutenant Miller, with whom Wing Commander Deere sailed to England before the war to join the R.A.F. Wing Commander Deere will leave for New Zealand on October I. London, September 19. The monthly meeting of the Riccarton Garden Club was held at the home of Mrs H. B. Duckworth, Straven road, where there was an excellent display of cut flowers and decorative work. Competitions resulted as follows: —best hyacinth, class A, Mrs R. T. Tosswill 1, Mrs Harris 2; class B, Mrs Phillips 1, Mrs Hay 2; decorative class A, Mrs Milne Shand 1, Mrs J. R. Templin 2; class B, Mrs E. Tomlinson 1, Mrs Harris 2; flowering shrub, Mrs Cramond 1, Mrs Hay 2.

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