NEWS FOR WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24932, 20 July 1946, Page 2

NEWS FOR WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES

The New Zealand Wool Board has received a cablegram from London advising that Her Majesty Queen Mary, accompanied by the Lady Margaret Wyndham, visited the exhibition of hosiery and knitwear by manufacturers from the Midlands. This exhibition was staged by the International Wool Secretariat. The Queen was dressed in a powder blue fine wool two-piece suit, the jacket being fingertip length.— (P.A.)

Their Excellencies Sir Bernard and Lady Freyberg have agreed to accept the offices of patron and patroness of the Sunlight League of New Zealand. Miss H. S. Thomson, who has been clerk in the school inspectors’ office of the Canterbury Education Board for 30 years, will retire at the end of this month. Members of the board met her

at morning tea yesterday. The chairman (Mr C. S. TTiompson). the chairman of the appointments’ committee (Mr A. E. Lawrence), and the senior inspector (Mr H. D. Prichard) paid tributes to her gracious efficiency for so many years.

Staff-Sergeant N. Long (Wellington), Corporal N. J Opie (Christchurch), and Staff-Sergeant I.’Cairns (Kurow), the last New Zealand W.A.A.C.’s in Italy, returned to Wellington by the Rangitiki on Thursday. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr J. Mackenzie, formerly station manager of 3YA, was passed 'at a meeting of the Sunlight League yesterday. Miss M. G. Havelaar was the speaker at a meeting of the Hard of Hearing League held . in . the league’s rooms, “The Press” building. Miss Havelaar emphasised the importance of helping the hungry children of Europe, thousands of whom hardly knew who their parents were or whether they were alive or dead. She recalled the gaiety and beauty of Budapest before the war and contrasted its former glory with its present wretchedness. After describing the heroism of the community of nuns at Cassino, who stayed in their convent during the bombardment of the town and cared for numbers of neglected and starving children. Miss Havelaar said there were now 700 homeless children leading normal, happy lives in the convent at Cassino. She appealed to all who could to help in making simple soft toys to send to European children, some of whom had never seen a toy of any kind. It was decided that the league’s recentlyformed handicraft circle should concentrate on making soft toys, which would be sent overseas.

At a meeting ef the Sunlight League held yesterday. Dr. D. E. Currie presiding, preliminary arrangements were made for a public meeting, arranged by the league’s housing committee, to be held in September, when addresses on the me/lica] aspect of housing would be given. Several sub-commit-tees were set up for dealing with different aspects of the league’s work.

Under Officer Claire G. Wilson, daughter of Mr and Mrs C. J. Wilson, has been transferred to the headquarters of the R.N.Z.A.F. in London and will leave by air for Britain early next week. Under Officer Wilson has been stationed in Wellington up to the present.

The marriage took place in Surrey, England, on June 29, of Flight-Lieu-tenant C. W. (Bill) Henning, son of Mr and Mrs B. W. Henning, of Akaroa. to Joyce, second daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Harvy Ayres, of Portsmouth. Flight Lieutenant Henniqg went to England with the New Zealand Victory Parade contingent as a representative of the R.N.Z.A.F. He is doing a special course with the R.A.r. on Mosquito aeroplanes, which will take two to four months, and will then return to New Zealand. Mrs Henning will leave for New Zealand in the New Year. Her parents and members of her family were killed at Portsmouth in a bombing raid in 1941.

The July meeting of the Opawa Parent-Teacher Association was held at Risingholme this week. There was a good attendance of members, presided over ,by .Mr E. _P. Lgne. Mr Adlam. • headmaster ..oL the. Opawa School, gave a .short.,talk on general school activities, and this was followed by an hour of questions and suggestions. Much valuable information was gained, and suggestions noted for future consideration. Supper was served by the women of the committee. after which a short dance was held to music played by Mr W. Gray. Mrs J. G. Buinlng (formerly Miss Reid, of Auckland) and her Dutch husband have returned to New Zealand from Britain after five ' years under Nazi rule in Holland. Mr ana Mrs Buining, whose home is in Auckland, were visiting Amsterdam to see Mr Buining’s mother, who was ill, when the Nazis attacked the Low Countries. They were unable to leave Holland until after the Canadian forces liberated the country m 1945.

As part of the campaign to obtain urgently-needed staff additions in the Auckland Hospital Board’s institutions, arrangements have been made for prominent medical m 9 n an<l others concerned with hospital services to address meetings of womens and young people’s organisations in the city. All aspects of hospital work will be discussed by authorities on various subjects. The first of these addresses was given on Thursday, when Mr Douglas Robb spoke on the. nursing crisis at a large gathering of members of the Auckland Travel Club.

Mrs Overton Smith, for the last four years and a-half. has delivered the mail on horseback every day to State tenants In the Naenae area, Lower Hutt. She has watched Naenae grow from farms and market-garden land to what it is to-day. She believes she is the last woman in New Zealand to deliver mails on horseback.

Miss Hilda Nichol (Bluff), who was on the staff of the Fernleaf Club in London, which is now closed, is visiting Holland and Belgium, •and hopes to go to Ireland before returning to New Zealand.

The lady editor of “The Press gratefully acknowledges receipt of a parcel of magazines from Mrs A. K.. Warren for patients in the banatorium.

Women particularly are Invited to consult Klexema specialists about skin and scalp ailments such as seboirhoea. alopecia, and baldness Phone 34-506 Triangle Buildings. 281 High street Advt.

SOME SAY HEALING HURTS! We must Team by experience and so i is that practical experience teaches us that one good and reliable antiseptic is worth all the money spent on socalled antiseptics. “Santol” the one and only; costs only 1/6. 2/6, 3/6, trom chemists. “Santol” heals, sterilises, cleanses, sweetens, and freshens. H. r. Stevens, Ltd., Ch. Ch., Mfgs.). Advt.

PRISON GATE MISSION APPEAL . When the Courts have dealt with accused criminals and decided whether guilty or not, and what punishment should be given; or when the term of imprisonment decided on is over, there is still much to be done for the man or woman so punished.. Punishment may have caused a desire to reform; but the ex-prisoner (man or woman) is usually much handicapped in putting that desire into effect. . Temporary financial and other help is often needed. The Christchurch Prison Gate Mission is one of the societies which through New Zealand helps exorisoners (men and women) to rehabilitate themselves. Our funds are very low. Will you help us? We are granting about 400 applications everv year, and have helped many to become respectable citizens again. We are constantly coming across men and women nice criminals (and occasionally bad ones) who have made good and are now a source of pride to us. Please send a donation to the secretary of the Prison Gate Mission. REV. P. REVELL, 62 Bealev avenue. • Ch. Ch.. C.l. IL will be acknowledged in “The Press.” Advt.