NEWS FOR WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25020, 31 October 1946, Page 2

NEWS FOR WOMEN

♦ CURRENT NOTES

Sir Patrick Duff (High Commissioner for the United Kingdom) and Lady Duff will leave Wellington today to visit Oamarti. They will return to Wellington to-morrow. The sum of £5O was raised by The Friends of the Hospital when they held a “shop day” in Harmony Hall yesterday. Mrs W. R. Wornall was convener of the committee that organised the sale. Miss Daphne Chapman (Christchurch) has been elected president of the New Zealand Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs; She will succeed MisSx Margery Toulson (Wellington), who has held the office of president since the inception of these clubs. Mesdames B. H. Gilmour (president), P. G. Greenwood, Cecil Wood, H. Wyatt, A. Bunz. Miss M. -Bain; Mesdames Algar Williams, J. W. Graham, T. Hanna, Leyden Baker. E. J. COrdner. Jack Ferrier, J. W. Niven, S. G. Bowron. and H. T. Jennings will be delegates from the Christchurch branch of the Plunket Society to the annual conference which will be held in Wellington on November 19, 20. and 21. K Mrs Gilbert Grigg (Hororata) will represent the Malvern branch of the Plunket Society at the Dominion conference to be held in Wellington next month. She will leave for the north on November 16. New Plymouth’s oldest resident, Mrs Sarah Heappey, who -was in her one hundred and first year, died yesterday. She was born in London in 1845 and was married 76# years ago. She arrived in Wellington in 1876. She was the only surviving member of the pioneers who settled on the Manchester block, Halcombe, Manawatu. — (P.A.) 4 Mrs N. Hillman, a young New Zea-land-born actress, will arrive in Dunedin to-day for a brief visit before returning to London to fulfil engagements. During her stay in Dunedin she will be the guest of Miss Kathleen Falconer, of Ashburn Hall. Mrs Hillman has had wide experience with repertory touring companies in Great Britain Arrangements for the packing of 4600 Christmas parcels for men of the J Force have been* made by the Mayoress of Auckland, Mrs J. A. C. A Hum, at the request of a representative of the National Patriotic Fund Board. The parcels will include in their contents a cake, a tin of tongues, chocolate, and barley sugar, dental paste, a tooth brush, and boot polish. The training as nurses in Australia of Baltic girls who had become nUrse aides under UNRRA was urged by Sister M. I. Lindsay, on her return to Australia from abroad recently. Sister Lindsay was for 10-1 months district chief nurse in Germany with UNRRA. “By inviting Baltic girls to come to Australia to train as nurses, we would be doing something both to help them and to help ourselves,” she said. Sister Lindsay’s job in Melbourne is health inspector. She is also secretary of the Trained Nurses’ Guild. The lady editor of “The Press” gratefully acknowledges receipt of a parcel of magazines from H. S. Richards for the Sanatorium. Just opened, a range of attractive Straw Hats in shlall and large brims. Colours include White, Pink. Green, Gold, and Beige. Trimmed with ribbon and veiling. Constance Gee, Ltd., 679 Colombo street. Advt.