CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25551, 20 July 1948, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

At a meeting of the “Glenelg” Health Camp committee last evening great pleasure was expressed at the onour done to health camps in New Zealand by Princess Elizabeth, who has given a donation of £lOO from the fund raised by the exhibition of her wedding presents to the King Georgfe V Memorial Health Camp Fund.

Lady Wigram (president of the North Canterbury Centre of the Red Cross Society), Mrs Herbert Smith, Mr A. E. Kincaid, and Mrs M. Page (secretary) will leave next Tuesday for Dunedin to attend a Dominion conference of the Red Cross Society. Mr and Mrs Lester Wiggins and their son and daughter (Nyassaland) will arrive in New Zealand by the Empire Star, probably next month, to spend furlough with relatives in Christchurch. Mrs Wiggins was formerly Miss Rita of Avonside, and Mr Wiggins is a son of Mr H. L. Wiggins, of Sumner.

Mr J. Bostock, representative in New Zealand of the British Council, and Mrs Bostock, who are visiting Christchurch, have a special interest in Christchurch. Mr Bostock is a former pupil of Harrow, and was' for many years a member of the teaching staff; Mrs Bostock’s father was a master at the school for 25 years, and her brothers are Harrovians. On the panelled walls of the old Fourth Form room, said Mr Bostock, speaking at a reception given in his honour yesterday by the Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews) are carved such names as Shaftesbury, Peel, Palmerston, Byron, and J. R. Godley, founder of Canterbury, so he and his wife felt they had a link with Christchurch. Mr and Mrs Bostock, who live at Kelburn, Wellington, have just completed a tour of Nelson, Westport. and Greymouth. They lived in Turkey for some time before they came to New Zealand about six months ago.

Mrs Egerton Reid and Mrs L. Puxley, who have been spending some months in New Zealand, will leave by the Rimutaka next week on their return to England. Mrs Puxley was formerly Miss N. Guinness, of South Canterbury. At a meeting of the “Glenelg” Health Camp committee last evening a vote of sympathy with the Roxburgh Health Camp committee in the death of its chairman. (Mr C. E, Begg) was passed. Miss M. Enright, who presided, said Mr Begg had been a strong supporter and liberal benefactor of the health camp movement and was a valued member of the Dominion Advisory Committee of the New Zealand Federation of Health Camps. Sympathy was also expressed with Miss M. McNaughton (secretary of the

“Glenelg” Health Camp committee) .in the serious illness of her mother. Miss Mary Seddon, daughter of Mr and Mrs T. E. Y. Seddon, Wadestown. Wellington, will leave New Zealand by the Waiwera for London. Miss Seddon, who is a graduate of Victoria University College, expects to be away for two years. Travelling to England by the same ship is Miss Jacqueline Beere, holder of the first scholarship to be awarded in New Zealand by the British Council for drama. Miss R. J. Clark, of Carterton. has taken up duty as supervisor of the telephone exchange at the Timaru Post Office. She replaces Miss E. R. Smale, who has gone to Napier. It was announced at a recent meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union that the annual district convention of the union would be held in Christchurch in September. Miss C. Henderson (president) presided, and gave a talk on extracts from the “Vanguard.” Members were asked to help with the street collection for CORSO. A donation was sent to the union’s district committee. Sympathy was expressed with Miss Sargent in her illness.

“In Shanghai we are now giving free literacy classes, health treatment and nutritional aid to 5000 of the city’s poorest children. Through the ‘little teacher’ system the children are trained to take their schooling back to their less fortunate neighbourhood youngsters. In this way we believe we

are carrying out the most effective means of stamping out illiterarcy in China to-day,” wrote Madame Sun YatSen in a letter to the Dominion secretary of the National Council of Women of New Zealand (Mrs E. J. Chesswass) in reply to a message of greetings from the council which was conveyed to China by Mr Colin Morrison, of CORSO, and forwarded to her. The China Welfare Fund was very grateful for the interest and generosity shown by the people of New Zealand in the help they were giving to her country, she added. “We feel especially fortunate to have two very fine girls from New Zealand—lsobel Easton and Sygrid Brynildsen—who are assigned to work as nurses in the International Peace Hospitals. Through CORSO we have also received some greatly-needed medical .supplies. . . . Will you please convey to the members of your association my sincere appreciation of all you are doing for China,” she wrote.

The July meeting of the St. MartinsOpawa Garden Club was held at the home of Mrs H. J. Quarrell, Opawa road. An informative talk was given by Mr M. J. Barnett on “Plants and Trees of the Bible.” At a sales table excellent business was done, and competitions resulted as follows: posy in a miniature container: class A, Mrs Ivory 1, Mrs Cowell 2. Mrs Turner 3; class B, Mrs D. Wilson 1. Mrs Anderson 2, Mrs W. Rodgers 3; parsnips, Mrs Leach 1. Mrs Polhill 2.