ENGAGEMENTS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25086, 18 January 1947, Page 2

ENGAGEMENTS

Mr and Mrs Angus Lyall, High street, Waimate. have much pleasure in announcing the engagement of their youngest daughter, Margaret Ella, to George, only son of Mr and Mrs T. B. Thomason. 110 Annan street. Invercargill „■ 5 . The engagement is announced - of Colleen Patricia, daughter of Mr and Mrs Waterland. Waipara. to Robert David, son of Mr and Mrs J. Sloss. Omihl

Children under two years of age do not make satisfactory progress m day nurseries, and are better off with their mothers, according to the Deputy -Medical Officer of Health in Essex, Dr. Hilda Menzies. Her report, after a close study of child nurseries, states that children under two, in day nurseries, fret and suffer emotionally, and do not put on the weight they should, although their rations are twice those they would be getting at home. Expert guidance was needed cohcerning the earliest age at which a child might be removed from its mother, its home, and familiar surroundings, and for how many hours a day. without the danger of emotional upset. “The age may vary with individual children.” said Dr. Menzies. “It is unwise to send them to a day nursery automatically when they are under two. or even three or four.” However much the Government might want women to re-enter industry, it did not want it at the expense of the health and happiness of young children. X. Maureen O’Hara, the Irish-born star who first won fame with Charles Laughton in British-made films, has just returned to America from a visit to her parents and family in Ireland. Now in New York, Miss O’Hara caused of flurry of excitement on Broadway when she attended a recent first night. She appeared in an evening gown of dark wine velvet. The off-shoulder gown was slashed from waist to hem, revealihg an inset of delicate Limerick lace. Overlapping the slashed edge of the dress, the lace formed a cascading ruffle down the front and along the hem. With it she wore an ermine cane and opera-length gloves. Miss O’Hara is a stately sft Sin tall. Both in New York and in Hollywood she finds great difficulty in buying any clothes of a ready-to-wear nature, so all her wardrobe has to be specially made.