NEWS FOR WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24740, 4 December 1945, Page 2

NEWS FOR WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES

At a meeting of the L ies’ Guild of the British Sailors’ Society, held yesterday. it was decided that the guild’s wool room in Manchester street which during war years, has been a distributing and receiving depot for wool and v.oollen comforts for seamen, should close on December 12 and reopen on January 26. The' room will probably close finally at the end of February, when all the wool that has been distributed has been returned. It was reported that during the last month 195 woollen comforts had been handed to the Seamen’s Institute at Lyttelton for distribution. Arrangements were made for distributing ditty bags at Christmas, and reports of the visitors to the Christchurch Hospital and to the Cashmere Sanatorium were received. The Junior Guild recorded many activities carried out during the month, and it was decided to support the Junior Guilds Christmas stall to be held next week. Mrs H. T. J. Thacker presided at the meeting. Girl guides are busy raising money for the Guides’ International Service, that is, to send teams of guides overseas m the service of UNRRA A combined effort—the holding of a sale in Cathedral square—proved very successful and on Saturday guides of the north-east Christchurch district held a rally and fete at Cracfoft House, Cashmere. A display of guide' work was held, and, although the rain that fell during the afternoon interfered with the attendance, the stall-holders did good business. Guiders in other distncts will hold similar gatherings in the near future. As the Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Council’s wool room will close almost immediately. Miss M. Orbell who has been in charge of the room, will be grateful if all who heve wool will return the finished garments and parts of skeins of wool as soon as possible. A total of £SOOO towards the £20,000 required for the re-establishment of Rangi-ruru Girls School by the Christchurch Presbytery is in hand in cash and promises. This was reported to a meeting' oi the organising committee fu- ®Y enin g. “In view of the fact mis this amount was the result of only three weeks’ collecting, and that reports from country committees have not yet been received, it is an excellent beginning, indicative of the support pf the community for the enterprise,’ the report stated. The reports from voluntary collectors made it clear that much ground was still to be covered before the school’s future could be assured. Nurses from many parts of the world are appealing to the International Council of Nurses for help. Anurgent need is for uniforms, shoes, stockings, by the hundreds of thousands. They need also soap, underwear, coats, sheets blankets, in New Zealand, the Red Cross Society has undertaken to accept nurses’ uniforms and have them separately packed, if sufficient are received, and forward them to the International Red Cross for distribution in Europe. Mrs Margaret Wiggins, who, with her husband, the Rev. M. Wiggins and their two small daughters, left Christchurch a few months ego to do mission work in central Africa, has written to Mrs A. C. Purchas (president of the Christchurch Diocesan Mothers’ Union) and Mrs J. H. W. Sheppard (secretary ! describing life in her new home. Berege, Kilora. in the Tanganyika territory, where Mr and Mrs Wiggins live, has no radio, because a battery would have to go 50 miles to be charged, it has only a small weekly newspaper, mail once a week, and the nearest store, a grocery, is 60 miles away. Mrs Wiggins writes that great precautions have to be taken to keep ants from the food, insects and monkeys eat the growing vegetables, which have to be watered twice a day, snakes are numerous, and a few nights before she wrote a lion had visited the village. She asked if any members of the Mothers’ Union in Canterbury would send her old cotton dresses or piece of material to be made into frocks for the native children, old linen for use in the hospital or to be made into burial cloths for the dead, hosmtal linen and bottles jars, and corks of any description. Mrs Purchas who is anxious to help Mrs Wiggins in her difficult work, would be glad to receive any gifts, which could be left at Church House.. Cashel street, and would be forwarded to Tanganyika, where they would be much appreciated. Two veteran missionaries of the Presbyterian Church in Canton, the Rev. H. Davies and Mrs Davies, who had been interned in Hong Kong and Shanghai, returned to Auckland by air on Sunday. Mr Davies is moderator designate of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. A former Hastings resident had a personal interest in the appendicitis operation recently performed on Princess Margaret Rose. He is Mr Alan Small. F.R.C.S.. son of Mr and Mrs Hugh Small, of Hastings, who was chosen by Sir Lancelot Barrington, ward surgeon to His Majesty, as his assistant for the operation. Mr Small was educated at Havelock North School. Napier Boys’ High School and Otago University, being a nominee for the Rhodes Scholarship in 1931. The death has occurred of Miss Annie McDonald, aged 84, the last member of a well-known pioneer family of the Whangarei Heads. Miss McDonald arrived in New Zealand with her parents from Scotland over 70 years ago. They settled in McLeod’s Bay, where they lived for many years. Another Big Auction Sale of Good Furniture, China, and Crystal will be held at H. G. Livingstone and Co.'s auction rooms, 109 Hereford street, tomorrow, commencing at 1 p.m. —6 Mrs Freeman has just received the newest in Straw Millinery in all colours, including white, natfy, black, and natural. Georgette Millinery, Ballantynes Bldgs., 122 Cashel street, and Ashburton. —1 You are invited to consult Klexema Specialists about Baby Eczema. Falling Hair all Skin or Scalp ailments Phone tor appointment, 34-566, consultations are tree. Klexema Rooms Triangle Buildings. 281 High street Established 30 years —1 THE ESSENCE OF GOOD COOKING. Fl.ivpur your baking with -Cathedral” Brand Flavouring Essences. The true, full flavour gives added zest to any cooking —gives new life to your recipes. Every flavour is richer—so highly concentrated that less goes further. Ask for Stevens Cathedral Brand Flavouring Essences, economical in use. sold by all grocers. 1 RED CROSS SOCIETY The Waikari sub-centre of the Red Cross met recently and packed another large case of clothing which was sent to headquarters with the usual knitting and sewing. These cases have been sent fortnightly for several months. Arrangements were made to stock a medical loan cupboard for the use of the.district It was reported that three Christmas parcels were to be finishedand sent in early in December. These are for military hospitals. The V.A. department reported that several calls for V.A.’s had been fulfilled. Nurses Matthews, Ferguson and Gainsford had been on duty at Burwood Hospital, and Nurses P. Ferguson, L. Black, D. Cooper and M. White at the Waikari Hospital.