CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24800, 14 February 1946, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Lady Hicks, who has been staying with her sister, Mrs K. Tie Courcy Low S-umner, nas returned to Adelaide. Her husband. Sir Stanton Hicks, professor of physiology and pharmacology .at Adelaide University, who is attending the conference of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association now being held in Auckland, is expected to visit relatives in the South Island before returning to Australia. Sir William Dobbie and Lady Dobbie, who are visiting New Zealand, were honoured guests at the Wellington Rotary Club’s luncheon on Tuesday. A presentation of a set of silver coffee spoons, inlaid with paua shell and enclosed in an inlaid box made from five New Zealand woods, was made to Lady Dobbie. Dr. Muriel Bell, nutritionist to the Department of Health, speaking in Auckland, said that from food exigencies in the war had come a great deal of information on nutrition. Outlining the nutritional needs of secondary school children, the speaker criticised adversely the policy at present obtaining whereby milk supplies were cut out first to secondary pupils whenever winter milk shortages occurred.

As the troopship that is bringing the first group of evacuees from the Netherlands East Indies to New Zealand did not arrive in Auckland until last evening, the evacuees will not disembark until this ihoming. The value of the soya bean as a food was referred to by Sir Stanton Hicks, of Adelaide, in an address on nutrition to the British Medical Association conference in Auckland on Tuesday. Scientific experiments had made it possible, he said, to grow these beans in northern and arid parts of America, and they were being used not only for food, but also for manufacture into plastics. Potatoes and wheat also could now be grown in places where formerly there was insufficient sunlight to support them.

The Married Women’s Association in London is approaching Mrs Roosevelt on behalf of rfiore than 200 English wives of American servicemen whose husbands are how bafck in the United States and are divorcing them under American law. It is expected Mrs Roosevelt will receive the deputation of brides before she goes home. The chairwoman of the association says the husbands are divorcing their wives for the flimsiest reasons; many of them have children and they are unable to claim maintenance allowances. Recently there arrived at St. Joseph’s Convent, at Patricroft, Manchester, England, eight Sisters of Mercy who had been interned by the Japanese in Sarawak for three and a half years. Before Japan entered the war they had lived abroad for a varying period, ranging up to 35 years in the case of the Reverend Mother. A young man, a prisoner in the same camp, wrote to friends in Christchurch describing the heroism of these women, who worked and washed and mended for the other internees, nursed the sick, and cheered and encouraged the despondent during their long captivity. The letter was read at the last meeting of the women’s auxiliary of the Returned Services’ Association, of which Mrs H. G. Livingstone is president. The result was that members decided to send a gift to the Sisters as a token of appreciation of their courage, and at a meeting of the auxiliary, held yesterday, a large food parcel, the contents of which were contributed by members, was prepared for early dispatch to the convent at Patricroft.

The “Glenelg” health camp committee gratefully acknowledges receipt of a gift of fruit from Mrs Alfred Bunz for the children at the camp. The schoolmaster at the camp would be grateful for gifts of used wooden matches and small cardboard boxes, such as chocolate boxes, for use in handwork classes. Gifts may be left with the lady editor of “The Press,” who will forward them to “Glenelg.” An easy chair will be the gift of the Styx-Harewood sub-centre of the Red Cross to the restroom at the plastic unit at the Burwood Hospital. This was decided at a meeting held on Tuesday, when 30 members were present. and Mrs F. McArthur presided. Garments, which will be sent to Britain, were handed in, and it was reported that parcels had been sent at Christmas to servicemen in hospitals. It was decided that a bring and buy sale should be held at the next meeting. The hostesses were Mesdames Cumming. Frazer, Claridge, Evans, Lynn, and Haytor.

The lady editor of “The Press” gratefully acknowledges receipt of a parcel or clothing from Mrs V. Edgar (Mount Pleasant) for the children at "Glenelg” health camp, magazines from Mrs J. P. Rickard and from H. Dalton (Woodham road), and packets of Christmas cards from anonymous friends. Acne. Eczema, Falling Hair, skilfully treated. Violet Ray, Infra Red, and Medicated Packs. Klexema treatment has been well known for the last 30 years. Consultations are free. Triangle Buildings, 281 High street, 'Phone 34-566. Advt. SAFE AS A CHURCH. ’ A good old sayings that, indicating steady reliance—the same as you expect and get when health in the home is guarded with “Santol” Antiseptic. It’s equal to peroxide—and has so many uses. Ideal for sterilising dental plates, cleansing cuts, scratches and wounds, refreshing the mouth, etc. “Santol” should be in every home. Ask your chemist for a bottle. (Mfrs. H. F. Stevens, Ltd., Ch. Ch.) Advt.