CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25547, 15 July 1948, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

The Mayoress (Mrs Hardy Qookson) is a patient in the Christchurch Public Hospital. She is making a satisfactory recovery from an operation about a fortnight ago; but it may be some weeks before she can resume her public duties. - To attend..the diamond jubilee of the Auckland: ’Girls’ Grammar School, of which, as Miss Butler, she was headmistress, Mrs A. W. Gordon, M.E.E., arrived at Wellington from South Africa in the Arawa. Mrs Gordon was headmistress of the school from 1911 to 1921, and then went to Southern Rhodesia, where she has been prominent in child welfare work and was also secretary-treasurer of the Rhodesian Society for the Blind and Physically Defective. Until June she was president of. the National Council of Women of Southern Rhodesia. — (P.S.S.)

Mrs H. A. Bishop welcomed a large number of members of the women’s section of the Returned Services’ Association in the Jellicoe Hall yesterday afternoon, when the first meeting since the annual meeting was held. Songs were sung by Mrs J. Colthart and Mrs Claude Davies, with Mrs A. W. Scott and Mrs H. Barker as accompanists, and sketches were presented by Mesdames R. V. Gilmour, F. Shaw, J. S. Strang, and L. O. Tyrrell, with Mrs I. Anderson as accompanist. A competition was won by Mrs F. E. Coleman, with Mrs Comer second and Mrs M. Everett third. Members were asked to contribute readable books to the R.S.A. men’s new library, and to take to the nfext meeting a packet of cigarettes for the hospital fund.

Mrs M. Bennett, who has been a member of the Mid-Canterbury Provincial Executive of the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers for some years, was presented with books and travelling accessories at a recent meeting of the executive. It was reported that the newly appointed dressmaker for the federation would commence duty in the Seafield area shortly, and that two housekeepers were at present on duty in the federation’s area.

Sister Valmai (Judy) Abbott, a former resident of Christchurch, was recently successful in the English examinations for X'-ray technicians. She has now secured passes in both the Australian and English examinations in this field of radiology. After completing her general training, at the Wairau Hospital, Blenheim, Sister Abbott was appointed to the X-ray department of Kew Hospital, where she has been a member of the staff for the last 10 years. Gifts of clothes contributed by the staff of Messrs Beath and Company, Ltd., for the three Greek children and one Finnish child they have adopted under the “Save the Children” fund were displayed yesterday in the firm’s building. About 50 garments ranging from underclothes and pyjamas to beautifully-made frocks, skirts, and knitted cardigans and boy’s clothing were included in the display. Members of the staff contribute 3d a week towards the sponsorship of the children and postage of food and clothing parcels, and since April 9 about £67 has been collected. The sponsorship fees of £l3 10s for each child were forwarded from this amount. The welfare officer of the company, Miss M. Whyte, who is in charge of the work, said that the appeal for the children had met with a ready response, and staff members not only contributed to the fund,- but gave the food gifts for dispatch to the children, and in their spare time made clothes from,new aijd used material. A letter acknowledging her first .gift parcels had been received this week from the first child adopted by the staff—an 11-year-old Greek girl. By their own efforts this year, and because of the difficulty of obtaining labour, a Tasmanian orchardist, aged 77 years, and his wife, aged 75, have harvested between 6000 and 7000 cases of apples. The woman’s best effort was 85 cases in one day. This is only part of her work in the orchard. Ever since her marriage she has applied bandages to about 2000 trees each vear to prevent codlin moth.

Miss Margaret Pollok (Invercargill), a member of the teaching staff of the Southland Girls’ High School, who is studying at the Sorbonne, Paris ,has won a diploma in a French course which includes French literature, language, phonetics, art, and philosophy.

A decision to establish a free kindergarten at Waimataitai, Timaru, was made at a meeting of parents held at Waimataiti this week. A local committee was appointed, and a second committee was also appointed to make a survey of the northern area of the town, including the - new, housing, area, where it ig hoped eventually to establish another kindergarten. Kindergartens taught children to live together, said the Medical Officer of Health for the Timaru district (Dr. G. L. McLeod), when giving reasons at the meeting why there should be kindergartens and why people should support them. It was essential that every child should be taught to live with others of his or her own age, size, and mental development, he said. In the kindergartens there was opportunity for a child to measure up against his or her fellows, which was not possible in the home in these days of small families. The kindergarten did not attempt to take the children from their mothers, but aimed to be complementary to the home. Miss P. Whakarau, of the staff of the Mosgiel Woollen Mills, will be the leader of the New Zealand marching team when the King and Queen and Princess Margaret visit Wanganui next year. The team will later tour Australia. When you step inside Morris Linens at 225 High street, you enter not just another department of a large store, but a model shop, staffed by well-in-formed and courteous salesgirls who count it a pleasure to assist you in the choice of your requirements from their large and varied stock of lovely linens. At Morris Linens you can buy the best of linens, Manchester goods, napery, and blankets. The shop. 225 High street, is just above McKenzie’s Arcade. ’Phone 398 and ask for 7016. —Advt. A small, exclusive selection of strikingly superior Worsted Suits arrived this week at Anthony Andersen, Ltd., the centre for fashionable women’s wear, at 81 Cashel street (near Turnbull and Jones). These suits, which will appeal to those women who put quality first, are available in S.W. to O.S. sizes in black (braided), mid-grey, grey with a chalk stripe, beige and mustard. GEORGETTE MILLINERY SALE. Felt Hats in All Shades from 9/11. All Models reduced at 122 Cashel st. (Ballantyne’s Buildings) and Ashburton- Advt