CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25247, 28 July 1947, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

One hundred and one debutantes were presented to Archbishop O’Shea at the Charity Ball, held in Wellington on Friday, which was attended by nearly 1000 dancers and a full gallery of onlookers.

One of the few people in New Zealand who can claim a fairly close relationship to Field-Marshal Montgomery is Mrs Margaret Hutt, of Rakaia, who is a second cousin of the Field-Mar-shal. Their grandfathers were brothers, and Mrs Hutt’s mother’s maiden name was Montgomery.

A new residential club for Maori girls x vtill be opened in Wellington next month. The matron will be Mrs K. Hurley, who was formerly an ofScer in the Waaf. The club is to be called Pendennis, and is to be a home for those Maori girls who find it difficult to secure good accommodation in Wellington. It will be run on the same lines as the National Service hostels, with the bare minimum of regulations. The girls who are moving into Pendennis come from offices and factories, and at least three of them are Training College students. When the club opens there will be about 33 girls in residence. Five Maori girls will be on the domestic staff. They will be accommodated on the premises, and will be on exacty the same footing as the other girls.

At the recent annual meeftng of the central branch of the Methodist Women’s Missionary Auxiliary, the Rev. R. Dudley presided over a fair attendance of members. . A report of the year’s activities was read by the secretary, Mrs J. C. Carter. The financial statement showed a substantial increase in the amount collected during the year. Mrs R. Dudley and Mrs J. C. Carter were unanimously elected president and secretary respectively. A committee of bishops in England recently considered a proposal that lay-women should be permitted to conduct parts of Anglican Church services. There are differences of opinion on this subject in New Zealand Churches. Occasionally, however, deaconesses, specially trained, take part in services. Sometimes a woman missionary gives an address in church. Women are sometimes elected to boards of management, and many have proved efficient social workers. So far the Methodist Church has no ordained women ministers, though some are trained as deaconesses. Women of the Congregational Church have for years Rast been ordained in England, and lere are two in Australia.

Miss Betty White, first assistant dispenser at the Wellington Public Hospital, has just left New Zealand to take up the position of head pharmacist at the Kwang-chi Church Missionary Society Hospital at Hangchow, China. Before the Japanese occupation this institution was the biggest mission hospital in the world. During the war. Miss White did valuable work at the Silverstream military hospital, Wellington. She is being sent to China by the New Zealand relief agency, CORSO, and during her two-year term in Hangchow will not only act as head dispenser, but will take part in the training work at the hospital.

A baby boy, whose mother was unable to keep him, quickly found a new home last week. The Motherhood of Man movement, which deals with many cases of adoption of babies, broadcast an appeal for a home for the baby during a fair the organisation was holding. The mother with her baby waited in an ante room at the hall and soon after the anpeql a man and his wife from Ellerslie, who already have two children of their own, arrived. They took the child home with them and intend to get in touch with the Child Welfare Department with a view to adopting him. PRE-COOKING preserves that Delicious Nutty Flavour in “HOLLY” OATMEAL or Rolled Octs. Your grocer stocks delicious cereal—cooks in two minutes. Advt.