CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25091, 24 January 1947, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

The Rev. and Mrs H. W. Newell, with their daughter, Miss Margaret Newell, will leave New Zealand by the Dominion Monarch on January 31. Mr Newell is going to Geneva to take up the position of assistant general secretary to the World Council of Churches.

Miss B. Hodge, an English dietitian, who has been engaged on the staff of the Wairau Hospital, Blenheim, has accepted the board’s proposal to stay in its employment for two years. This provision was made when it was agreed, at Miss Hodge’s request, to pay her fare to New Zealand. The Minister of Health had asked the New Zealand High Commissioner to secure priority for. her passage.

"For my breakfast, when I arrived home in Christchurch. I had bacon and an egg, as much bacon as would be a week's ration in England, and an egg, that would be a month’s ration,’’ Said Miss Helen Thomson, who has just returned from England, where she did research work in wool at Leeds University. “The gratitude of the people of England for gifts of food was touching,” Miss Thomson continued. “From the many parcels I received I sometimes gave my friends a tin of dripping. Their faces would light up and their eyes shine, and they would say, ‘Oh. you mustn’t give me this; it is worth its weight in gold.’ ” Miss Thomson added that she hoped there would be no slackening of the effort in New Zealand to send to Britain as much food as possible. All food was greatly appreciated, she said, but thought fat, meat, and cheese were perhaps the most welcome.

Mrs J. Forbes (matron of the Timaru Boys’ High School, and formerly of Christ’s College. Christchurch), who has been visiting relatives in. England for the last nine months, is returning to New Zealand by the Hinemoa, due in Wellington on Sunday. After being absent from the Dominion since 1937, the New Zealand novelist, Miss Rosemary Rees, is making her sixth voyage back. She is a fiassenger in the Hinemoa, due in Welington on Sunday. She has written 18 novels and one travel book. She will probably stay a year in New Zealand, spending most of the time in Gisborne and Auckland. Another New Zealand author, Miss N. E. Coad, who has been in Britain for the last six years, is also returning on the Hinemoa; and other passengers are Dr. Garland, his wife, and five children. Dr. Garland is to take up the post of industrial hygienist to the Department of Health in Wellington.

Clutching a teddy bear from*which she refused to be parted, a six-years-old Auckland girl, Frances Cox, who was met at Mangere by her mother, travelled alone on Wednesday from Nelson to Auckland in a National Airways Corporation aircraft. Pilots and ground staff of the service took a close interest in the child’s journey and described her as “the model passenger.” The child had travelled earlier from Auckland to Nelson to spend a holiday with her grandmother. That journey also was made alone. On Wednesday she sat in the foremost seat of the airliner, and showed neither excitement nor fear. Her only request was a politely expressed wish for a glass of milk “if you have that sort of thing.” The co-pilot found her one. Because of the speed of air travel and the assurance of personal supervision throughout the flight young children travelling alone are not unusual on New Zealand airlines. One girl of five travelled unaccompanied a few days ago from Palmerston North to Christchurch. Her only comment was: “The aeroplane goes much faster in the South Island than it does in Palmerston North.”

The lady editor of “The Press” gratefully acknowledges receipt of a case of plums for “Glenelg” Health Camp and an umbrella for the sanatorium, both from anonymous friends, and a parcel of magazines from Miss Roberts.

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