NEWS FOR WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25013, 23 October 1946, Page 2

NEWS FOR WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES

Miss M. Gallagher, acting-supervisor of pre-school services, who is at present visiting Christchurch, yesterday afternoon met member? of the executive of the Christchurch Free Kindergarten Association at the home of the & resident, Mrs A. Keith Hadfield, olmwood road, Fendalton. Informal, friendly, and helpful discussion about the general running of. kindergartens took place and questions of student training and general staffing- explored. Miss Gallagher expressed her admiration of the selfless work for the children and for the community as a whole that was being done here by those interested in promoting the kindergarten movement and also emphasised the importance and value in pre-school training of .close co-opera-tion between teacher and parent.

Mrs Freda Grant arrived at Timaru yesterday to conduct examinations for the Royal Academy of Dancing, London. She is a member of the Grand Council of the Royal Academy, and acts on both the technical executive and overseas committee. ..A meeting of the men’s committee that is working for the Y.W.C.A. £20,000 Appeal was held in the board room on Monday night, when the chairman, Mr R. McPherson, presided over a good attendance of members. The campaign was advanced a stage further when plans for future activities were carefully considered and adopted. It was agreed io meet again at a luncheon meeting this week, when reports by members will be submitted to the meeting. Reports from the various committees were very encouraging. Miss N. McCormick (Auckland), secretary of the New Zealand Ladies’ Golf Union, who is visiting Christchurch for the Dominion championship golf tournament, will leave for the north to-morrow night. Miss E. M. Upton (Auckland), who has been taking part in the tournament, will return home by aeroplane on Friday. Another North Island visitor, Mrs J. Hunter (Waipukurau) will visit her sister at Hororata, before returning to Hawke’s Bay.

After several days strenuous play under varied weather conditions players in the Dominion golf championship tournament now being held at Shirley, and tournament officials, enjoyed a very pleasant interlude yesterday, when they were the guests of the president of the Christchurch Golf Club (Mr M. H. Godby) and Mrs Godby and the club captain (Mr F. S. Taylor) and Mrs Taylor, at an “At Home” held at the clubhouse. Mrs P. R. Godby and members of the committee of the golf club, helped the hosts and hostesses in entertaining the guests, who were greatly appreciative of the kindly hospitality extended to them. The Rev. Mother Theophile, one of the missionary t sisters of the Society of Mary, who work amongst the lepers in the Pacific islands, is leaving Wellington soon and returning to Fiji as regional mother. Her successor at the training centre and rest home of the sisters in Wellington is the Rev. Mother Basil. When the Japanese invaded the Pacific islands where they work, the sisters were hastily evacuated, and came to New Zealand via submarine. Now they have returned to the islands well equipped for resuming nursing and welfare work throughout a wide area.

Miss Violet Roche (Wellington), organising secretary for the Barnardo Helpers’ Leagues of New Zealand, will leave for London early in the new year to study post-war conditions of the Barnardo’ Homes in Great Britain. Mrs J. L. Rogers (Roseneath) will act as New Zealand secretary during Miss Roche’s absence.

At the annual meeting of the Wellington branch of St. Margaret’s College Old Girls’ Association, held recently, Miss Peggy Heney was elected president and Mrs G. Deldyck honorary secretary. Miss Joan Hammond, the Christ-church-born dramatic soprano, who will visit Christchurch this week, was an ambulance driver during the blitz period in London—one of the “Cinderella” brigade, which did good work during the bombardment of London. Sometimes in the winter she slept beside her ambulance or under a roof minus walls. She preferred that to sleeping in an overcrowded, stuffy room. Miss Hammond was formerly a prominent golfer in Sydney.

At the invitation of the New Education Fellowship, Dr. Josephine Brdw, M.A., LL.D., an authority on youth work in England, will arrive in Christchurch by air on Saturday, and will stay in the city until Friday, November 1. She will visit youth organisations, the Vocational Guidance Centre, and the United Youth Council, and will address University students and some clubs.

Mrs William Deans (Sandown, Darfield), a member of the Dominion executive of the Federation of Women’s Institutes, has been visiting Feilding and has now gone to Hastings.

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