CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25924, 3 October 1949, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Miss Shirley Welch, formerly of Lower Hutt, who returned to Wellington in the Mataroa after three years’ study of the piano at the Royal College of Music, said that in England the high standard of the average music student's work and general enthusiasm for it were outstanding. She said that England was the most progressive country of any from a musical viewpoint. Miss Welch said that this was noticeably so in the enthusiasm demonstrated by young persons at the promenade concerts. She considered that British people were more musically minded than New Zealanders, due probably to the wealth of musical fare with which they were constantly surrounded. Miss Jean Combs, who is head of the broadcast to schools section of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service, and who was awarded an Imperial Relations Trust Fellowship, the first to be given to a New Zealander to study broadcasting oversea, returned to the Dominion in the Mataroa. Miss Combs spent six months at the 8.8. C. in London. Two members of the Tivoli “Command Performance’’ company, the general manager of the company (Mr Rudolph Mann) and Miss T. Dennis, were married in Invercargill recently. The company was giving final performances in Invercargill at the time, and the couple remained to appear in the programme at the matinee and evening performances.

Rescued from a cattle truck in which members of her family were being deported to Russia from Poland in 1940. a little Polish girl was reunited with her family in Wellington. She was Marysia Babrowska, aged 11, who arrived in the Mataroa. Her mother, brother, and sister, who were on the wharf to greet her, had not seen the child for more than nine years. The train in which they were being deported stopped for two days. A young doctor they knew who lived in that vicinity begged the family to give him the baby. Marysia, who was then 18 months old. Reluctant at the time, they realised their wisdom later in view of the subsequent hardships, which many babies did not survive. The family spent three months in the cattle trucks. After the baby had been smuggled through the bars of the truck, the doctor returned her to the family nurse, who cared for her until she was married. Other kindly persons looked after the child from then on. Through the years the doctor constituted himself her guardian. No word has been received of the father, who was a colonel in the Polish Army. Nine women, whose average age is 70 years, left Auckland by aeroplane yesterday to spend a fortnight on Norfolk Island. The plans for their journey v ?re mapped out by the Auckland Women's Recreational Group, to which organisation they belong. It is the first travel venture outside New Zealand organised by the club. The oldest member of the party was Mrs M. Gibens, who is 81. The aim of the group is to supply an interest for women whose families have grown up. It provides activity as well as company, as the club holds “keep fit” classes and indoor bowls. Journeys all over New Zealand have been made by parties of members. A tribute to the memory of Miss Emma Gordon, a valued foundation member who died recently, was paid by the president (Miss C. Henderson), who presided at a meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of Miss Gordon was passed. A report on the temperance youth rally, and comprehensive reports on the district temperance convention, he'd in Ashburton, were given by Mesuimes Lennon and Neutze, and Miss Thomas.

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