NEWS FOR WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24959, 21 August 1946, Page 2

NEWS FOR WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES At the annual meeting of the North Canterbury Post and Telegraph Women s Association it was decided to give £1 10s to buy toys' for Christmas for children in Britain. The following officers were elected:—patroness, Mrs D. R. Thomson; president, Mrs L. N. Cuming; vice-presidents, Mesdames A. an< * E-. Kay; secretary, Mrs C. D. McKenzie; assistant secretary, Mn G. Mclntyre; treasurer. Mrs N. Grossman; committee, Mesdames R W. Craig, Good, W. H. Thomas, A. Palmer, P Wederall, and R. H. Wilson; delegate to National Council of Women, Mrs G. Mclntyre. “Impressions on a visit to America" was the subject of a talk given by xfi S> Dodds at a recent meeting of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Young Men’s Christian Association. Songs. Were sung by Mrs Williams and Miss I. Clay. Mrs A. Pirani presided.

At the annual meeting of the Christchurch Ladies’ Bowling Centre the following officers were elected:— president, Mrs C. Madsen; vice-presi-dent, Miss D. Lane; secretary-trea-surer, Miss J. Crowley; assistant secretary, Mrs C. Boon; elected delegate, Mrs M. Wilkins; match committee, Mrs A. Carrell, Mrs A. Stanley, and Mrs J. H. Thomas; auditor, Mr C. Boon. The following officers were elected yesterday at the annual meeting of the Girls’ Advisory Committee of the Christchurch Vocational Guidance Centre:—chairwoman, Miss E. Bachelor; vice-chairwoman, Miss M. Enright; secretary, Mrs J. A. Crawford; representatives on the combined executive, Misses M. Samuel, R. P. Karsten, M. Enright, E. Bachelor, G. Watson, and E. C. Islop.

The president, Mrs G. H. Watts, presided at a meeting of the Women's branch of the Citizens’ Association held at Sumner yesterday. The Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews) spoke on the amalgamation of Sumner with Christchurch. The state of the Sumner sewerage system was discussed by Mr W. P. Glue, who said that ther® was much need of repair. However, the securing of engineers was a problem at present. Miss Mary McLean spoke on hospital work, and the health of the people of Christchurch. She emphasised the need for common serase in dealing with these matters. Miss McLean also outlined the work of the Civic Health Committee which has been formed by the City Council. Mr F. L. Brandt enumerated improvements which had recently been made in Sumner. Sixty-six new street lights had been installed, and 500 trees had been planted at Scarborough, he said. With these and other proposed improvements, it was hoped in the near future to have a better and brighter Sumner.

“The outstanding characteristic- of our work this year has been the fight to supply juvenile labour,” said the district vocational guidance officer for girls (Miss C. Robinson) when speaking yesterday at the annual meeting of the Girls’ Advisory Committee of the Christchurch Vocational Guidance Centre. There was a very severe shortage of office workers, she said. In answer to a question, Miss Robinson said that the acute shortage of such workers was largely caused by the increasing number of marriages and by the return to their homGs of married women who had taken up employment during the war. Also, there had been, during the last three or four years, an increase in the number of pupils interested in the home science course in the secondary schools. There was now no need, as there had been in the past, to try to persuade girls to take this course. Miss Robinson added that the centre was still facing a very serious problem regarding the provision of suitable boarding accommodation for young workers.

The Christchurch Cultural Society, formerly the Society for Imperial Culture, was founded by Mrs Cluade Sawtell in 1921; and to celebrate its twentyfifth birthday, an anniversary meeting will be held at the end of this month. For this occasion, the first president, Professor J. Shelley, will come to Christchurch from Wellington and will deliver an address entitled “Hats and Hair-cuts.” A special musical programme has been arranged for the meeting and members will be permitted to invite interested friends to be present.

The number of, boys and girls interviewed by the officers of the Christchurch Vocational Guidance Centre during the last year was 9000; of these, 5175 were girls. These figures -were given yesterday by , the district vocational guidance officer for girls (Miss C. Robinson) at the annual meeting of the Girls’ Advisory Committee. Miss Robinson emphasised the need for more instruction being given to those about to leave school concerning the work they intended to do. A number of school pupils were completely ignorant about the type of work which they said they were going to take up. It was announced that primary school children in Form II would visit the centre next term to be interviewed regarding their secondary school course.

There were about 400 guests last night at the annual ball held by the Licensed Victuallers’ Association at the Winter Garden. The money raised will be devoted as usual to the arranging of outings for the inmates of the Jubilee Home and Nazareth House, and to other charities in the City. The guests of honour included the Mayor (Mr E. H, Andrews), the Town Clerk (Mr H. S. Feast), and Mrs Feast, Mr J. O. McGillivray (a fonner secretary of the Licensed Victuallers’ Association), and Mrs McGillivray, representatives of various business firms and members of the Christchurch Licensing Committee and their wives. The organising committee comprised Messrs A. J. Empson (president of the association), A. Barrett, L. G. Marston, J. M. MacKenzie, J. C. Harding, C. Leeming, W. Maloney, L. M. Denton, L. G. Ditfort. D. H. Hill, V. F. Smyth, H. L. S. Smith, T. H. A. Goulding, H. L. Dyer, R. L. McCormack, J. M. Fahey, J. H. MacKenzie. J. P. McKendry, J. Green, G. L. Comer, T. G. Fox, P. A. Smith, T. C. Watson, and K. N. McGillivray (secretary). Members of the Opawa ParentTeacher Association recently held an evening social to honour Mr F. H. Dephoff and Mr G. L. Hight, for their long service as members of the Opawa School Committee. The guests of honour were each presented with a fountain pen. Appreciative reference to their work was made by the president of the Opawa Parent-Teacher Association (Mr E. R. Lane), the chairman of the school committee (Mr G. Stevens), and. by Mr E. Mulcock, who represented the teaching staff. Items were given by Messrs Pryor, A. Beazley and H. Taylor, and by the school choir. Mr Skipworth was master of ceremonies.