CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25738, 25 February 1949, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs W. Mackay (Weston road) will go north on Tuesday to attend the investiture of her brother-in-law (Major-General Sir Norman Weir) at Government House on Thursday. Miss C. Jefferson, who has been attending the Science Congress in Christchurch, will return to Dunedin to-day. Taking ’■art in the Christchurch Ladies’ Bowling Centre’s annual tournament next week are 10 members of the Kaikoura Ladies’ Bowling Club: Mesdames W. F. Perrin, T. G. Drabble, A. M. Imbs, L. Exton. D. McCallum, W. G. Dalzell, E. W. Harris. J. Burk, A. S. Robinson, and Miss E. M. Hayward. The fours teams will be skipped by Mrs McCallum and by Mrs Robinson, who has been singles champion of her club for five years in succession. In the pairs competition, five teams have entered. Mrs J. J. McVay, triple New Zealand tennis champion, has announced that, acting on medical advice, she has retired from competitive tennis. • The youngest woman candidate at the British General Election may be Miss Margaret Roberts. She has been selected by Dartford Conservatives. Miss Roberts is 23, daughter of a tradesman. Scholarships took her from an elementary school to Oxford, where she took an honours degree in natural sciences. She is no\v a research chemist at Colchester. She is tpll, dark, attractive, and well built. Members of the Association of Overseas Women War Workers met yesterday at the home of the president (Mrs Stephen Parr), to say good-bye to Mrs J. L. Hay, a member of the association-, who will leave next week for a trip to’. Britain. Among the guests, who were mostly sisters who had seen service in the 1914-18 war, were two survivors from the Marquette, which was torpedoed in the Mediterranean, and a few nurses who had served during the recent war. On behalf of all the members. Mrs Parr presented Mrs Hay with a posy, and wished her and Mr Hay a very enjoyable holiday. Girls who recently left school were specially invited guests welcomed by the president (Miss Natalie Vale) at an evening gathering held in Hay s lounge by St. Margaret’s College Old Girls’ Association. Miss Vale expressed pleasure at the presence of Mrs C. L. Young (principal of St. Margaret’s College). An enjoyable programme comprised songs sung by Miss Dorothea Charters, and a puppet show staged under the direction of Mrs Harding. Members said good-bye to a member of the committee (Miss Rayma Morgan), who is soon to- be married, and who will live in Auckland. Miss’ Vale presented her with a parting gift. A decision to send £3OO immediately to the British Red Cross Society for the purchase of medical supplies badly needed for refugees in the Middle East was made yesterday by the Dominion executive of the New Zealand . Red Cross Society. All centres and sub-centres will be asked to send bandages, surgical dressings, and other medical supplies for the earliest possible overseas dispatch. The decisions were made as a result of a letter from Lady Limerick, of the British Red Cross Society, and a report from Colonel W. J. F. Craig. British Red Cross Commissioner in the Middle East. —(P.A.) Miss E. Zimmern (London), a former president of the Associated Countrywomen of the World, who has been visiting Canterbury, will leave to-day for Timaru and later will visit Dunedin and Invercargill. On her return to the north, she will spend three days in Christchurch. Sponsored by the W.A.A.F. members of the Christchurch branch of the Air Force Association, a success-

ful party was held in the Mayfair Lounge last evening when about 150 former and present members of the W.A.A.F. held a reunion. During the evening an appeal was made to those present to give their support to the 1949 Miss New Zealand contest which is being conducted to provide funds for a memorial for members of the Air Force who gave their lives during the war. Members of the sub-commit-tee were Mrs R. Macewan. Miss Gilda Bezar, Miss B. F. Webb, and Miss L. Bradley (secretary). Musical items were provided by Mrs W. McLennan. Mrs Muschamp presided at the monthly meeting of the Riccarton Townswomen’s Guild, at which the guest speaker was Mrs Trevena. Members displayed antiques and Mrs Trevena gave an instructive talk on each article. Winners of the competition of a mixed vegetable salad were Mesdames Gibson, Skipworth, and Hodge. An appeal for the help of the National Council of Women in finding homes and foster-parents for teenaged children from Europe was made last evening by the Rev. P. O. C. Edwards at a meeting of the Christchurch branch of the council held in the National Club rooms. He said that the New Zealand Government had agreed to bring to the Dominion 1000 displaced persons from warravaged countries. About 200 would be children, but, as New Zealand was late in entering the field smaller children, who were easilv placed, had already been taken by other countries. Children from 12 years upwards were available if homes could be found for them. “We are not asking for adoption.” he said, “but we ask for homes or foster-parents for these children, who have no homes, no nationality, no hope for the future.” The first event on the 1949 programme of the Canterbury Women’s Club was held last evening when a number of coloured films of the floral floats in the Otago Centennial procession was screened by Mr G. F. Rogers, who said that the first anniversary of the procession day fell yesterday. Some beautiful coloured slides of New Zealand scenery and scenes of Italy in black and white were also shown by Mr Rogers, who was thanked by the president of the club (Mrs G. H. Watts). * There were about 4300 students at the University of Hawaii. Honolulu, said Professor Carey D. when addressing members of the Canterbury Women’s Club. Dr. Miller, who occupies the chair of home economics at the university, now devotes much of her time to research in food and nutrition. Of the total number of students, she said, 1800 were women. About one-third of the number were of Caucasian ancestry, one-third were Japanese, one-fifth were Chinese, and about one-tenth were Hawaiian. Gifts recently received by the Dunedin Art Gallery include a bequest by Mrs Pearshouse. daughter of the late Mr Benjamin Throp, of a valuable hand-beaten silver tea and coffee service and a pencil sketch by Gerald ■ Brockhurst, given by Miss Rona 1 Allen. :