NEWS FOR WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25135, 17 March 1947, Page 2

NEWS FOR WOMEN

CURRENT NOTES Her Excellency Eady Freyberg, honorary Dominion president of the League of Mothers in New Zealand, will speak at the league’s twenty-first birthday meeting, to be held in Auckland on March 25, andxwill open the Dominion Council meeting the following day. The league was formed in April, 1926, after a meeting convened by the Lady Alice Fergusson, wife of a former Governor-General.. An appeal for funds to complete the purchase of the new residential training centre for girl guides at Marton has been launched by the Girl Guides’ Association in the Wellington province. The sum of £2OOO is required by the end of April, states the association. The centre is set in an area of 10 acres, and is the first of its kind in the Dominion. In the past, training of girl guides has been carried out in the schools, but noXv the need for leadership training is so great that this venture has been made as a first step toward post-war reconstruction. Miss Barbara Rose, of Lyall Bay, Wellington, will leave by the Rakaia at the end of this month for the World Council of Churches’ Youth Conference which is being held at Oslo in Norway. The conference is being held from July 22 to July 31, and Miss Ross is one of five representatives from the New Zealand Council of Churches, which is interdenominational. New Zealand’s other representatives are all at present studying ip England, and go to Oslo from there. A new type of synthetic yarn which resembles wool will be made by an American factory from peanut fibre and nylon staple. Experimental quantities. of the yarn will be available to textile mills before the end of the year. It is claimed that the new fibre can be woven into cloth resembling cheviots, tweeds, and Shetlands. The Christchurch Cultural Society, which last year celebrated the twentyfifth anniversary of its foundation, now has 88 members, of whom an average of 60 attend the society’s monthly meetings. The annual report to be presented at the annual meeting of. members this week expresses appreciation of the generosity of many lecturers who have addressed members during the year and of the musicians who have provided good programmes at the meetings. Mesdames D. H. Butcher, A. G. Mitchell, R. H. Tait, W. E. Simes, W. Toomey, Misses Eileen Nutt, Helen Buchanan, and Kathleen Rutherford, who have been competing in the Otago proviheial golf championship tournament in Dunedin, returned to Christchurch last night. The provincial championship was won by Miss Buchanan who, in the final, beat Mrs Salisbury (Invercargill) 2 and 1. Mrs Toomey won a medal match and a bogey match, and Miss -Nutt won a medal match, and with Misses Buchanan and Rutherford also won the teams match. The lady editor of “The Press” would be grateful for the gift of some ecru mercerised crochet cotton, number 25, for a patient who has been confined to bed in hospital for many months. He has been making a crocheted tablecloth of number 25 ecru cotton and has not enough to finish the cloth. Efforts to obtain some have been unsuccessful. If any reader has a halfball or any odd length of the cotton that could be spared for the invalid the lady editor would undertake to have it delivered to him.

Mrs W. H. Elliott (Clarendon), dominion president of the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers, has arrived in Christchurch to take part in the women’s rally to take place this week under the auspices of the National Council of Women. She will be one of the speakers at the morning session. An afternoon reception to entertain visiting and local speakers at the rally will be held to-morrow afternoon.

- Mrs I. L. M. Coop (Kaituna) has returned from Wellington, where she attended a meeting of the advisory board of the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers.

Sympathy with the relatives of Mrs H. H. Allison, who died recently; was expressed at the annual meeting of the Red Cross Society, Opawa subcentre. The president (Mrs. D. E. Hansen) said that Mrs. Allison had always taken a keen interest in the Red Cross, and at the time of her death was a vice-president of the subcentre.

Mrs J. Kronsfeld (Wellington) will •arrive in Christchurch this week to attend the women’s rally which is being held under the auspices of the National Council of Women.

Miss Dorothy Crumpton, who recently took up her new duties as director of the Risingholme Community Centre, Opawa, was welcomed at an afternoon party given in her honour by the Community Centre committee and held at Risingholme on Saturday afternoon. The president, Dr. O. H. Frankel, expressed appreciation of the zest and enthusiasm with which Miss Crumpton had set about her work at Risingholme. “She has been here only a fortnight, and already we all feel she is one of us,” he said. About 70 guests attended the gathering, and a treasure hunt was hela for the children and Miss Doreen Herbert’s ballet danced on the lawns.

Yesterday about 280 girls and boys from Nazareth House, Brougham street. St.- Joseph’s Home, Middleton, and St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Halswell, were taken by cars to Leeston, where they enjoyed a picnic arranged for their entertainment by the Rev. Father Creed and friends in the Ellesmere district. The outing was arranged by a group of friends of the orphanages, who found a ready response to their request to private car-owners to provide transport for the children. At Leeston, a programme of games, races, and competitions was enjoyed, and the music and marching of the Ellesmere Pipe Band added greatly to the success of , the gathering. Refreshments were provided by the residents of Ellesmere and dispensed by a band of willing workers, and before the party left for Christchurch cheers were given for Father Creed and his parishioners at Ellesmere and for the band.

Members of St. Margaret’s College Old Girls’ Association were hostesses at the annual tennis match for the Janet Storry Shield played at the United Club’s courts on Saturday morning. After the match, the president of the association (Mrs. E. G. Gibson) presented the shield to the winning team—Christ’s College Old Boys’ Association, the members of which were Messrs Bruce Winchester, S. W. Seldon, E. T H. Taylor, N. Brydes-Jones, D. E. Hamilton, R. Taylor, E. S. T. Hampton, and G. Finney. The runners-up were members of St. Margaret’s team —Mrs. M. Lawrence, Miss P. Stevens, Miss W. Morgan, Mrs. J. N. Hamilton, Misses G. Rankin, G. Napier, B. Hatherley, and A. Thomas.

Victoria League Garden Party.— Competition Winners: Cake, Mrs A. George, 2 Macmillan avenue; hamper, Mr Archbold, 11 Dampier street. Advt.

Calling All JlTomen to the Women’s Rally. Civic Theatre, Wednesday, 10 a.m., 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Prominent Women Speakers.—Advt. Plunket Society, Papanui-Merivale sub-branch, are holding a Garden Party at Sir Heaton Rhodes’s. “Elmwood,” Heaton street, on Thursday, March 20, 2.30 p.m. Stalls—Cooked Food, Cake, Produce, Variety. Children’s Knitted Goods. Books. Toys, Aprons, etc., etc. Bran Tub. Pony Rides. Photographer. Admission Is, includes Afternoon Tea. Advt.

Miss Marian Wade, late of Duncan ,and Cook, has now purchased R. and M. Beattie’s Toilet Salon. ’Phone 30-988. Advt. COOKS in ’two minutes—" Holly” Oatmeal —the new process pre-cooked breakfast cereal. Ask your grocer for "HOLLY” Oatmeal or Rolled Oats—you'll enjoy the Delicious Nutty Flavour. Advt.