NEWS FOR WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24986, 21 September 1946, Page 2

NEWS FOR WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES Miss N. Thompson, who has been assistant at the Sydenham Kindergarten, has been appointed director of the Woolston Kindergarten Mrs G. Trevor Hill, formerly secretary of the Sunlight League health camp committee in Christchurch, has left Auckland for Brisbane, where she has taken a position with UNRRA. Miss H. Iris Crooke, director-general of New Zealand Red Cross VAD.’s. will visit Dunedin next week. For the last 15 years in succession, Mrs David Maider. of Dunedin, has arranged an afternoon concert in aid of the Makogai Leper Fund. The first parties were held at her own home; but so popular have these entertainments become that Mrs Maider has found it necessary to hire a hall for each occasion. Last year’s party yielded a profit of £7O and at this year’s effort, which was held in the concert chamber on Thursday, 450 guests were present All the preparation, including the catering and the arranging of the programme, has been carried out each year by Mrs Maider herself The death occurred recently in her seventy-ninth year of Mrs Beatrice ♦ Alice Donald, widow of Mi William Donald, Featherston. Mrs Donald was born in Featherston, where she lived all her life. She was a granddaughter of pioneers, Mr and Mrs Charles Cundy. who arrived in Wellington in 1840, also Mr and Mrs James A’Court who arrived in the same year In a review of the work done by the Woodlands Street Patriotic Guild, Timaru, during the five years and a half of its existence, the secretary (Mrs E. Osborne) said that 16 cases, containing 1200 garments, had been sent to the Lady Galway Guild. 2180 articles, including 183 pullovers, had been knitted for the Patriotic Fund Board, and parcels had been sent to 64 servicemen. Recently 1300 food coupons had been collected, and the sum of £l4 15s had been given to the Red Cross for the Food for Britain Campaign. The lady editor of “The Press” would be grateful for the gift of a few used umbrellas in dark colours for the patients on the sun-balconies at the Cashmere Sanatorium. Umbrellas left at “The Press” office, addressed to the lady editor, will be promptly delivered to the sanatorium. At the end of this month a party of 25 women will leave Wellington for a holiday tour of the North Island. AU are members of the Women’s Institute, and the tour is the first of its kind to be held in the North Island, though such holidays have been organised frequently in the past by South Island institutes. Women particularly are invited to consult Klexema specialists about skin and scalp ailments such as seborrhoea. alopecia, and baldness. Phone 34-566 Triangle Buildings 281 High street AdW BEAUTY AND THE BATHI Natural body perspiration can cling, but, happily, a little “Santol” added to the water lets you bathe away all trace of perspiration using any soap you wish. “Santol’ ’is the sure and certain antiseptic. It is needed for sterilising, protecting .and healing cuts, sores, and abrasions . . is absolutely safe for general home and personal use. 1/6, 2/6, 3/6—all chemists. (H. F. Stevens, Ltd., Ch.Ch„ Mfrs.). Advt.