CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24869, 8 May 1946, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mjss M. E.- gaundet’s presided at tfcie May meeting of tne North Canterbury Women Teachers’ Asspeiation. An interesting address was given by Mrs Binswanger, who |ppk ap her subject a comparison between the British and Continental systems of ’fedupajion, with special reference to pre-Hitlerite Germany, Italy, and France.

About £S2Q was collected yesterday in aid of the International Students’ Service, during the street appeal held 4? PPhiunction with the Canterbury University College students’ proeessipn. This amount is about £l2O more than any previous sum raised:

“A Blue Rordef” xyas the subject chosen by Mr F. J. Shanks for his talk at the monthly meeting of the Cashmere Garden Club, which was held at the home of Mrs C. E. Foweraker. Tea helpers were Mesaames H- Gill, H. Parsonson, £. B- Philips, and M iss ECJucas. “Films” w?s the subject of an address given by Mr G. Guy at the monthly pieeting of the Timaru High School Old Giri?' Assooiation. spyprai films were shown by Mr Guy to illustrate yaripus ppintg.

„.The dgath occurref} recently of Mrs CJara Jane Marshall, of 480 Worcester street, Linwood. She was the widow

of Mr Alfred Marshall, J.P. Mrs Marshall was born at Gloucester, England, iq 1858 and came to New Zealand on the ship Westland m 1879. shp was pne of the founders qi the Avapside Tennis Club and was for several years Nfayoress of Linwood. Mrs Marshall is survived by two sons, Messrs H. R.

Marshall (Christchurch) and C. A. G. Marshall (Auckland). There are five grandchildren and four great-grand-children.

Living conditions in Paris were described by Mrs J. Mowbray Tripp when she addressed jperrjbers of the V-A.D. Association of Canterbury last evening. Mrs Tripp recently returned from overseas, where shp has been serving as assistant to the New Zealand Red Cross Commissioner in the United kingdom. “Everyone in Paris looked very said Mrs Tpipp. ‘’■Their clothes were very shabby, but their hats were enormous. They looked almost defiant.” The soles of shoes were mostly made of wood or cork, and any leather psed was of very poor quality, spid Mrs Tripp. Food was another problem. For breakfast, at Qi}e of the prst-clasj? hotels guests were served with black bread, coffee without milk, anp a very smplj quantity of jam. The following queers w«re elected last evening at the annual meeting of the V.A.D. Association of Canterbury: —patrons, the Hqr. £. IJeafori gnd Mrs J. G. L. Vernon; president, Mrs G. Hennessy; chairwoman, Mrs E. Wise; vice-presidents, MCpi’dy, ~C. R. Thomas, J. Dickon, A. W. Hamilton, afid M. Gay; secretary. Mrs 6. R. Thomas; assistant secretary, Miss J. Peglar; treasurer, Miss Z. Hepburn/ committee. Mesclames'‘N.''E. McIntosh, M. Bethell, C. V. Sawtell, M. F. D. Crosbip, and KJisses JPeglar, E. Lomas, S. H. McGrostie, T. yrest-Watson, and M. G. Havelaar'.

“Girls who were transferred for the duration of the war from their work as shorthand typists to do work usually done by men, yvepp a spurcp pf anxiety to us,’* states fhp annpal report of the Girls’ Advisory Committee qf the Christchurch Vocational Guidance Centre, presented at yesterday’s meeting of the committee. ** Although we urged them to keep up their skill by attending night glasses, this was not plways possible, and how, after six years in spree cases, they are hnding it ypry gwk-warg io reinstate thejgselves. . . . The return of men has “released frp/n farm xyork a number of pountry girls who are also something of a problem,” the repqrt ppniinues. ■The education of many of them has stopped’ short at primary school, and though many of them' have taken pourses in dressmaking, and could be absorbed Fpadijy |ntq $ seeing trade, they have vague aspirations towards work for which they are not qualified, ffll wouM not proyifle .ftgrfi with a livelihood. Normally nursing is an outlet tp girls df this cjass, their pge not being a disadvantage to them.” “Contrary to our expectations, the pessatibh of hostilities' aihd the consequent lifting of manpower restrictions pnd other processes 'of readjustment after six years qf iygr, produced little variation in the primary course of activities at the cpntr'e?’. states the annual report of the * girls'’ advisory committee qf the phpjst'cnurch Vocational Guidance Centi?.* “The girls did not take advantage of tneif freedom of movement to "change their jobs to Ww'Benfiftliy fegreg. What little mpvernept there was, was due more to replacement of girls’ who had left to'be Tjifirriptt or of women wbg resqmed work in their ew n homes, of] trip return qf servicemen?’ The president (Mys H- Wyatt) presided at a meeting of the Women’s Auxiliary of thp ‘ Pbristehurch Navy League, held yesterday. It was reported that during the month 1W knitted garments bad ’ been Handed in at the wool ropm, CathpdraJ square. Sets'of woollen garments ‘had ‘bpeq sent to seamen in hospitals aqd the first parcel Of suygipal stockings and woollen bed boots had been sent to the Christchurch Public Hgspitpl. It yrp? also reported thfit hospitality held beep given to the men of various visiting'ships.‘A donation of £lO 10s is to* he sent to the Malta and Gibraltar Memorial Fund, fully zines for patients at the Sanatorium frqrn an anonymous friend, a packeKbf stamps from Mrs A. lime, ifil Wairiti . T h e , liberation pf fiojjpnd was celebreted by,, D Htch residents in Phrisk cpfflch on Monday evening There were about 50 guests at a dinner given by the Netherlands Indies Welfare Organisation. The Netherlands' medical officer for the Sqiifh Island (Dr. C. J De c G ef rp&S f r prodded the entertainment. After dinner, films lent by the Army Educatiqn and Welfare Service were shown The guests were later entertained at supper and a dance. *

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FOOD FOB BRITAIN. , Red cross fianpo fpr at St. Johnis Ambulance Hall. Admission 2s 6d. ’’Don't forget to bring your tin of food.’’ . Advl