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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25083, 15 January 1947, Page 2

As the Whangarei Hospital Board has been unable to secure- a dietitian in New Zealand, efforts are to be made to obtain one from England. The board has decided, on the recommendation of the Health Department dietitian, to communicate with the British Dietetic Association in an endeavour to obtain the services of a suitable, qualified person. The Division of Nursing Education of Teachers College, Columbia University, and Memorial Hospital, will offer a course devoted exclusively to cancer nursing, including aspects of cancer treatment, prevention, research, and education beginning in February, it was announced recently. Open to specially qualified nurses, the course has been organised in response to the increasing national demand for nurses specialising in cancer treatment and prevention. Miss M. E. H. Cowan, a seed analyst on the staff of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria, arrived in Auckland from Sydney on Monday on a seven weeks’ visit to the Dominion. Her visit will combine a period of leave and a study of New Zealand seeds. /

Visitors from Dunedin who will attend the annual conference of the Society of Registered Music Teachers of New Zealand, which will commence in Christchurch on January 22, will include Miss Mary Martin, Mr Roy Spackman, Miss Ruby M. White, Miss Sylvia Lawrence, Miss Marjorie McAdam, Miss Wjpifred Gardner, and Miss F. Watson. Mr and Mrs James Simpson, Mr W. Dobie, and Miss Marion Halliday will represent Invercargill; and Ashburton will be represented by Miss Merle Brown, Miss Elizabeth Brown, Mrs A. T. Smith, Mrs Newton Jones, Mrs J. HendersonLennon, Miss Marjorie McKeage, and Miss Lilian Lewis.

A forty-three-year-old widow, Mrs Gloria Vanderbilt, has opened a Cosmetic salon in New York named “Diamant Bleu’’ (Blue Diamond). Mrs Vanderbilt had to look for a career when her daughter, Mrs Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, wife of the famous orchestra conductor, cut • off her mother’s £7OOO annual allowance and told her to “go to work.” So her mother opened a cosmetic salon with a marble entrance, carved mirrors, sculptures, and paintings and blue velvet hangings, in a mansion. Mrs Stokowski’s fortune is estjmated at £1.500,000.