CURRENT NOTES
The King and Queen will hold three afternoon presentation parties at Buckingham Palace this year—on May 4, iday 14), and May 11.—London, Janu<ary 30.
Miss Violet Roche, organising secretary for New for the Barnard© Helpers’ Leagues, arrived in Christchurch yesterday, and is staying with Lady Acland, Brown’s road. She is organising a decorated tables display to be held in the D.I.C. tou wards the end of March. Various organisations are being asked to decorate tables, and the display will be formally opened by Sir Charles Price, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom. Mrs J. P*Stubberfield (president of the Christcnurch branch of the New Zealand Federation of University Women), Mrs C. H. Perkins (treasurer), and Miss Shirley Leech (secretary) returned yesterday from Wellington, where they attended the annual conference of the federation. Mrs Stewart Gornall, of Sydney, will arrive in Christchurch this morning. Mrs Gornall, who has many relatives in Christchurch, intends spending several months here.
The following officers were elected at the annual conference of the New Zealand Federation of University Women held in Wellington on Saturday: Dominion president, Miss V. M. Barron (Dunedin); vice-presidents, Miss B. Jackson, Mrs E. M. Richardson (Wellington), Miss M. Fyfe (Dunedin); secretary, Mrs A. A. Orton (Dunedin); treasurer. Miss E. M. Henderson (Dunedin). Headquarters have moved from Wellington to Dunedin. ,
Miss Vera E. Shield, for the last seven years a district health nurse in the Waikato, sailed recently in the Athenic for Great Britain, where she will take up duties at Brighton for one year as a health visitor. Later plans are for a sightseeing tour of six months on the Continent, where she will study health and nursing organisations. Miss Shield, who is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Shield, of Cambridge, trained at the Timaru Hospital. The death has occurred at Winton, Southland, of Mrs Isabella C. J. K. Cochran, at the age of 82 years. Mrs Cochran was the eldest daughter of the late William Duncan. She was at one time principal of the Girls’ High School at Dunedin, and later head teacher of the Green Island School. She was borp at Corstorphine, near Edinburgh, and went to Dunedin with her parents at the age of six years. Educated at Green Island and the Otago Girls’ High School, she later attended the Otago University, where she gained her M.A. degree with honours. For a period she was attached to the staff of the Nelson Girls’ College. Mr and Mrs Murdoch C. Dahl, of Surrender crescent, Brighton, England, celebrated their golden wedding on January 20. Mr and Mrs Dahl have many friends in New Zealand, Mr Dahl having visited this country on several occasions in connexion with the butter export business, with which he was closely associated in London before his retirement.
Mrs Helena Barnard, of Wellington, has made more than 73971 b of gingernuts since the beginning of the war. After the war* during which she sent them to servicemen in all parts of the world, she has been sending the biscuits to orphans of naval men in Britain.
Letters from a Dunedin pen-friend, Miss Enid Sherriff, of Eglinton road, so aroused the interest of two young women of Gasgoyne, North Dakota, United States, that they decided to come and see the country for themselves. They are Miss Doloris Fischbein, aged 24, a school teacher, and her 22-year-old sister, Geraldine, who is a nurse in Montana. After emphasising that she did not wish to offend anyone, Miss Geraldine Fischbein said she had noticed New Zealand women wearing dresses and shoes which were' in fashion “when we were freshmen in high school—and that is some time agp.” She thought that the main difference between men’s attire in the United States and New Zealand seemed to be the comparative scarcity of men wearing gabardine suiting here. “Those suits are really sharp,” she said.
In Stockholm many old persons occupied flats btiilt for them out of money which would otherwise have been spent on wreaths, said Councillor J. Newman in the course of a short talk on his recent travels abroad at a recent meeting of the Nelson City Council. '* ‘Remember the dead by honouring the living’ is a motto often quoted and followed by the Swedes,” he said.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 2
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