CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26639, 26 January 1952, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mrs J. M. Bums, who has been assistant in charge of records and examinations in the registrar’s office at Canterbury University College for' the last six years, has resigned to travel abroad. She will go to Sydney by the Wanganella in the middle of February to join the Otranto for Britain. Mrs Burns also plans to. visit France and Switzerland. She will return to New Zealand about Christmas. Miss Pamela Gibbs and. Miss Barbara Hardy (Riccarton) will leave next week in the Tamaroa for a trip to England. ' Mrs Anderson, representing the Scottish Women’s rural institutes, will arrive in Australia by the Orion next Saturday on her way to New Zealand. She is travelling under the Imperial Relations Trust, which last year sponsored a visit to New Zealand of an English woman, Miss Daniels, who spent some time in Canterbury.

Mrs J. J. Wilkins (Chicago), who arrived in Auckland this week, is making her fifth world tour by air. She has visited almost every country in the world, but this is the first time she has been in New Zealand.

Mrs Elizabeth Loane, of Ngatea, Hauraki Plains, celebrated her. 90th birthday yesterday. Mrs Loane does gardening, reads without glasses and has a good memory. She is one of a family of 12, and has four sisters over 80 years of age. Mrs Loane had six children.

Mrs ’W. Elliott, a delegate from Dunedin, who has been attending the Pan-Pacific conference, accompanied by Mr Elliott, left for the south yesterday.

Mrs W. R. Cashmore Mrs K. M. Judson and Miss Kay Rains (Auckland). who have been attending the Pan-Pacific conference, left yesterday for Auckland. “If the status of women is to be raised it is important that women should know how to lead,” said Mrs F. Balboa at the final meeting of the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association yesterday. • A leader, she considered, should be objective in her views. .She should be above personal feelings and ambitions for self-aggrandisement. “It is the woman who can be in the foreground as well as in the background who can accomplish things—even miracles,” she said.

Mrs H. Honore, wife of the president of the Cercle Francais, entertained the French-speaking delegates from Cambodia and Vietnam to the conference of the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association at her home in Holly road. Members of the circle were also present. An enjoyable musical programme, arranged by Mrs W. E. Olds, was presented at the monthly afternoon social of the Pensioners’ Club. Those who contributed items were Mesdames Anitg Ledsham, Jean Scrimshaw, Linda Haase. Thelma Christiansen, C. Shaw and Misses Kay Smith, Barbara Hyde and Julian McKendry. Mrs Olds was the accompanist. The oldest traveller on the Harewood to Melbourne flight yesterday was Mrs G. A. Peate, of Melbourne, who was returning home after spending four months with relatives in Christchurch. Althoug nearly 83 years of age, Mrs Peate greatly enjoys flying. Before the Melbourne service started she crossed the •Tasman from Sydney to Auckland by flying-boat after flying from Melbourne to Sydney. She has made other trioS to New Zealand by sea. Normally she travels about while visiting New Zealand, but on this occasion she has been content to spend the time quietly with her relatives.

About 80 members of the New Zealand Nurses’ Christian Union are in Wellington this week for the twentyeighth annual conference of the union. Among delegates are 10 missionaries from overseas—Misses N. Conway, M. Hullah, E. Preece, E. Parkinson, and V. Bargrove, from China; V. Williamson, N. Drew, V. Walmsley, and J. Hanning (India); and Mrs Theobald, from the Gold Coast. The delegates from Christchurch include Mrs J. Christie, Mrs J. McGiffm and Miss Kathleen Davies. “Flowers and Wreaths by Wire" anywhere. BUNTS, the Telegraph Florists. State Theatre Buildings. . Advt.