TRAVEL CLUB
FINAL MEETING FOR YEAR The last morning meeting of the Travel Club for 1953 was held yesterday when Mrs Gladstone Ward and Mrs John Stewart were hostesses, and Mrs Cecil Wood presided. Songs were sung by Miss Marie Ashby, for whom Mrs J. C. Cullman was accompanist, and the sneaker wag Mrs Pepper, wife of Brigadier E. C. Pepper, DeputyLieutenant of the City of London and Warden of London House. Mrs Pepper recounted some of her experiences as the wife of an Army officer before and during the war and eave a short description of the newly opened counterpart of London Housp for the accommodation of women and married couples in London for study or for further experience in their professions. The trust that administered "this residential centre had been lurge’y financed from the Lord Mayor’s Thanksgiving Fund, founded in aroreciation of the food parcels sent to England from overseas during and since the war. Mrs Pepper explained There were now about 50 women students and eight married couples in residence in converted buildings, and a new building was to be built nex* year. Mrs Penner raid. Brigadier end Mrs Pepper will visit Dunedin. Invercargill and Wellington before returning to Christchurch for Christmas
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27208, 27 November 1953, Page 2
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