NEWS FOR WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25099, 3 February 1947, Page 2

NEWS FOR WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES

The Prime Minister (Mr P. Fraser) and his step-daughter-in-law, Mrs Kemp, who have been visiting Christchurch. left by aeroplane last evening on their return to Wellington. The Chief Justice (Sir Humphrey O’Leary) and Lady O’Leary (Wellington), who have been visiting Christchurch, will leave this morning for a few days and will return to the city on Thursday. The marriage took place on January 22 in London quietly of Basil Ames Gammon, elder son of Mrs M. Gammon, of Basingstoke, and Ethel Mary Pollock, elder daughter of Mrs E. G. Gebbie, Christchurch, reports the London correspondent of “The Press.” At the twenty-third annual meeting of the council of the New Zealand Girl Quides’ Association held in Hastings last week the principal address was given by her Excellency Lady Freyerg. The following officers were elected:—Dominion president, Lady Freyberg; chief commissioner. Miss R. Herrick; deputy-chief commissioner. Miss E. Williams: Dominion secretary, Miss. M. Iles; Dominion executive, Mrs A. Bell (honorary treasurer), Mesdames J. RolleSton, Longstaff, A. Absolom. T. Wilson, E. Nelson, E. Nielson, and Miss E. Hoby. Amongst the guests who attended the Vice-Regal garden party given by their Excellencies Sir Bernard and Lady Freyberg at Government House, Wellington, on Friday was Madame G. Haumant, wife of the Governor of Tahiti, who is staying in Wellington with Madame Gazel. An English guest of particular interest was Mr Lionel Straker, who was accompanied by Mrs Straker. Mr Straker is Master of the Worshipful Company of Girdlers, and with his wife is on a visit to the Dominion. A Christchurch guest was Mrs A. H. Tocker, wife of the rector of Canterbury University College, and from Blenheim were Mr W. T. Churchward and his daughter, Mrs Basil Collyns. and Mr and Mrs George Spence. Miss Mary McLean, a member of the Christchurch City Council, has returned from Australia, where she spent about seven weeks in Sydney and Melbourne. Miss Ruth Herrick, Chief Commissioner of Girl Guides, is soon to be released from the W.R.N.S. and will again take up her position with the Girl Guides, For four and a half years she has been director of the Women’s Royal New Zealand Naval Service.

The 1946 census compiled by the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Girl Guides’ Association reveals that there is a total of 9441 guides, brownies, guiders, and other ranks, which shows a decrease of 1146 on last year’s figures. This is attributed not to a lack of enthusiasm on the part of children, but rather io a shortage of guiders which is causing concern in Great Britain and practically every part of the iSmpire. The congratulations of the Sunlight League to Sir James Hight, a member of the council of the league, on the recent honour conferred upon him were expressed at a - meeting of the committee held on Friday. The summer school of music conducted at Cambridge by the Adult Education Centre of the Auckland University College ended last week. The school, which had attracted students from many parte of New Zealand, was held at St. Peter’s School, where some 150 musicians and music lovers—many from remote, country districts—were in residence for 10 days. Classes were held for choir, orchestra, chamber music groups, woodwinds, and for listeners, while a pianb specialist class was conducted by Lili Kraus, and a composers’ group sat under Mr Douglas Lilburn, of Christchurch.

Australia’s most distinguished woman vigneron, Mrs Amy Fiaschi, attended the Federal Viticultural Conference in Adelaide recently as a member of the Wine Producers’ Association : of New South Wales. Mrs Fiasehi has studied >the wine .business from the preparation of the soil to the planting of vines and widow of Thomas Fiaschi. a‘“£tiStiXl£.’ guished doctor whose vineyards were his life-long hobby, she has carried- on as a vigneron since his death. There *»re two married couples the British House of Commons— Florence Paton, who is on the ehiiirmen’s panel nominated by theSpeaker every year, and Mr Paton, and Mrs Aneurin Bevan (formerly Miss Jenpie Lee) and Mr Bevan. Mrs Paton’s position on the chairmen’s panel entitles her to become chairwoman of committees in the absence of the Speaker and his two deputies. She recently made Parliamentary history by presiding over the House of Commons, the first woman to undertake that duty. She is in her early fifties, is black-haired and bespectacled, and is a pleasing and practised speaker.

After a postponement for seven years Australia will send a team of women basketball players to New Zealand this year. Plans for the visit were first made in 1938, when a team of New Zealanders—the first to cross the Tasman—toured Australia. The date for the return visit was then fixed for 1940, but ,with the outbreak of war the trip was cancelled. The team, chosen from-’ players who participated in the inter-State carnival in Brisbane last year, includes four Victorians. The captain will be the Victorian defence player, Eunice Gill, holder of the all-Australia umpire badge. She is a teacher of physical education in the Education Department. The team is leaving in August. Mr Abe Bloomberg, Mayor of Cape Town, and Mrs Bloomberg will be the first persons to welcome the King and Queen and the two Princesses when they arrive in South Africa on February 17. Mr Bloomberg is a much respected lawyer in Cape Town and, both his own and his wife’s parents emigrated from Russia 50 years ago to South Africa to start a new life in a new world. To-day, their children are the first citizens of Cape Town. They are hoping to present their two sons, Jonathan and David, to the Royal Family. On the night of the arrival of the Royal visitors, there will be a procession through the principal streets, and a State banquet at the city hall. Mr Bloomberg considers that the visit is going to be a great thing politically in South Africa—all parties, all races, all colours are united to welcome the Royal, family, who, to them, represent the people of England, with all their dignity and with all the happiness of family life.

Mrs Elsie M. White, Hereford Court, Christchurch (who is the only member in Australasia of the Society of Miniaturists. Royal Institute Galleries, London), has been advised by the secretary that several of her miniatures will be prominent in the London Exhibition this month.. One of the miniatures is of Her Majesty the Queen. This was submitted to the Queen at Buckingham Palace just before Christmas, when Her Majesty agreed to the exhibition of the miniature. and a letter received from her private secretary states that “Her Majesty expressed pleasure at Mrs White’s courtesy in submitting it.”

A class for intermediate and elementary home nursing will commence at the Red Cross Rooms, 105 a Cashel street, on Monday. February 10, from 7 to 9 p.m. Intending members are requested to give their names to the V.A.D. secretary at the rooms between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. as soon as possible. Fee 3s 6d. Those intending to join men’s detachments will also be welcome. “—Advt.

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