NEWS FOR WOMEN ART THERAPY IN SANATORIA

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26362, 5 March 1951, Page 2

NEWS FOR WOMEN ART THERAPY IN SANATORIA

IMPRESSIVE RESULTS IN ENGLAND

T Miss Florence Low. secretary of the Wellington Tuberculosis Association and. honorary secretary of the NewZealand Federatidh of Tuberculosis Associations, has returned to Wellington after a visit overseas. She visited many sanatoria in England, and was much impressed with the results of art therapy, which was introduced into sanatoria a, few. years ago by Mr Adrian Hill. Mr Hill started art therapy at the King Edward VII Sanatorium at Haslemere in Surrey, and it has now been adopted by 57 other sanatoria. Patients are equipped with .bed easels, palettes, and bright aprons to cover the bed clothes. They are given tuition by senior students of various art Schools. The students, whose fees are paid by the regional hospital boards, are chosen for their personality, initiative, and personal appeal, as well as for their artistic talent. It requires tact and patience sometimes to coax patients to try their hand at painting. Miss Low was also greatly interested in the splendid work done by the Women’s Voluntary Services. “Where there is a need, there is the W.V.5..” she said, describing their “meals-on-wheels” scheme of taking hot meals to elderly people; their dollar earning activities of carpet making and knitting; their garden gift scheme of distributing seeds and plants to People living in prefabricated houses, their godmother and aunt scheme, of befriending and “adopting" orphans; and innumerable other worthy activities..

OBITUARY

MISS A. C. INGLES

One of the first 50 New Zealand Army nursing service sisters to leave the Dominion for war service died last week at the Hutt Hospital. She was Miss Alicia Campbell Ingles, M.8.E., a prominent member of the nursing profession. A daughter of the late Mr H. A. Ingles and Mrs E. A. Ingles, of Kaikoura, she was educated at a private school and trained at the Christchurch Public Hospital, where she qualified in 1913. For the next two years she was a sister at the Nurses’ Home, but went overseas as a member of the N.Z.A.N.S. in 1915. For her work overseas she was mentioned in dispatches in 1917 and the following year was made an associate of the Royal Red Cross. Miss Ingles was Jrisde a full member of the Royahßod Cross in 1920, the year she returned to New Zealand to join the HealtrT < Department as a school nurse., v y In 1932 she was> appointed matron of Pukeora Sanatorium, where she remained till her retirement in 1938.

DAME ENID LYONS

RESIGNATION FROM CABINET

TTie Prime Minister of Australia (Mr R. G. Menzies) has announced that the Vice-President of the Executive Council, Dame Enid Lyons, has resigned from the Cabinet for health reasons. The resignation will take effect from March 7. Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman member, has sat In the House of Representatives since 1943, and has been in Fdderal Cabinet since December, 1949. Widow of Mr J. A. Lyons, a former Prime Minister, Dame Enid Lyons is 53. She has six daughters and five, sons. She is known throughout Australia as a public speaker and broadcaster, and is keenly interested in aU women’s movements and in public affairs generally. Her husband died in

DOUBLE GOLDEN WEDDING

A double wedding is unusual, but a double golden wedding must be a The fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Frank Bull and Mr and Mrs Harold Bull, of Rotorua, was celebrated last week by a cocktail party at th? home of Mr and Mrs John Bull, of Kawaha Point The two men are brothers and their wives are sisters. They were formerly tb*„ Misses Kathleen and Jessie Mcallll grandfather, the late Mr Archibald Clark, was the first Mayor of Auckland, where both women spent thair early life. The double wedding Ptace in Retnuera on February 28, 1901. Mr and Mra Harold Bull have three grandchildren and Mr and Mrs Frank Bull five. Both couples have two sons. Although they agree that a flouble golden wedding Is most unusual, the 81 f, t * r8 c . ,n claim to another distinction. Another sister, Mrs Major, W** 1 ! and a pother. Mr Gibson McMillan, have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, making a total of four in the one family.

CURRENT NOTES

- J, Macdonald (Invercargill), F’int! den i t H of Southland Women’s Club, will arrive in Christchurch toIP orr J»* to attend the conference of St Women’s Clubs m New Zealand. She will be the guest of Mrs J. G. L. Vernon, Webb street.

The matron of the Cashmere Sanatorium gratefully acknowledges receipt of the following gifts received for the patients:—tobacco, fruit, and magazines from the Navy League; magazines and fruit from the Tuberculosis Association: soap magazines, •P 4 sweets from the Friends of the Hospital; fruit, tobacco, matches, and chocolate from the Red Cross Society; chocolate, tobacco, and matches from 2?? -k 5 et *l r ? ed Services’ Association; magacinifr from Mrs Maclntyre; books from Miss K. Morrison; blackberries from Mrs Glover. Gifts for the Fresh Air Heme are gratefully acknowledged as follows:—scrapbooks, toys, and handkerchiefs from Aunt Haysi: cakes from Miss Marsh and Mr Hynam; Christinas cards from Mrs Munro: cakes, toys, sweets, fruit, and ice cream from the Commercial Travellers’ Association.

The centennial tournament of the Christchurch WorgHfr .Bowling Centre will open ■in ChrqjSnurch to-morrow, when players fronwmany parte of the South Island and a- smaller number from the North Islaas*will compete on seven greens. The ajtrie* are the largest received for tHK Centre’s biennial tournament—BB rihks and 144 pairs will take part including teams from tile Ashbury Club Timaru, the present holders of both the rinks and pairs championships. The president of the Christchurch centre is Mrs H. T. Muirson.

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