CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28016, 10 July 1956, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

The Minister of Social Welfare (Dame Hilda Ross), an honorary child welfare officer for many years, will take part in a half-hour broadcast programme this week, dealing with the work of the Child Welfare Division. The programme will show how the division protects the interests of children deprived of a normal home life, and the interests of those who face life under mental and physical handicaps. Miss K. Scotter, principal of the Girls’ Training Centre, Burwood, the Superintendent of Child Welfare (Mr C. E. Peek), two foster mothers and a child welfare officer will be amon » the speakers. A memorial service for the Sisters of the Church was held by the Christchurch branch of St. Hilda's Old Girls' Association in St. Mary’s Church. Merivale. on Saturday morning. The vicar (the Ven. Archdeacon E. A Gowing) conducted the service, assisted by the Rev. Canon I. L. Richards. The organist was Mrs Fogg, and two of the school’s hymns were sung. After the service morning tea was served in the Sunday school hall. Two representatives of St. Margaret's College Old Girls’ Association were welcomed by the president (Dr. Mary Harding). A concert arranged by Mrs Hilda Reeve was presented for members of the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand Pensioners’ Association. Items were given by Miss Kathleen Mangels. Mrs Thirza Collins and Mr C. Greenaway. Mr and Mrs R. Joe led community singing. The work being done to assist intellectually handicapped children was described by Mrs G. Rowe at the monthly meeting of the St. MartinsHuntsbury branch of the League of Mothers. Mrs M. Deidman presided. The monthly play reading evening of the Milbrook Drama Circle was held recently at the home of Mrs G. W. Skellerup. Fendalton. The visitors were welcomed by the president (Mr W. E. Cook). The members took part in reading three humorous one-act plays. An illustrated talk on the growing of vegetables was given by Mr J. Glazebrook at the monthly meeting of the Upper Riccarton Garden Club. Competitions resulted:—Large bloom: Mrs Holbrough 1, Mrs Taggart 2, Mrs Gilmour 3. Small bloom: Mrs Taggart 1, Mrs Wickins 2, Mrs Holbrough 3. Spike: Mrs Holbrough 1, Mrs Wickins 2, Mrs Taggart 3. Cluster: Mrs Blakeway 1. Mrs Taggart 2, Mrs Holbrough and Mrs Wickins (equal) 3. Decorative: Mrs Taggart 1. Mrs Gilmour 2, Mrs Wallburton 3. Vegetables: Mrs Hall 1. Shrubs: Mrs Taggart 1, Mrs Blakeway 2, Mrs Gentles and Mrs Gilmour (equal) 3. Coloured slides and films taken during her visit to Britain were screened by Mrs W. S. Mac Gibbon last evening at a gathering arranged by the women’s auxiliary of the Navy League to raise funds for a children's hospital in Korea, where the auxiliary sponsors children under the Save the Children Fund. Mrs H. Wyatt presided. Donations from the women’s section of the Christchurch Returned Services’ Association to the association’s funds were acknowledged by the executive of the association last evening. The grants were: £35 to the furnishing fund, £ll9 for hospital comforts, and £9O for the benevolent fund.

ENGAGEMENT (Engagement Notices must be signed by both parties.) Morrison—Smith: Mr and Mrs F. C. Smith, Kings avenue, Waikuku'Beach, have much pleasure in announcing the engagement of their only daughter. Ann, to Graeme Geffrey, third son of Mr and Mrs J. Morrison, 2 Aylmer street, Christchurch.

I when in Christchurch, to be given the opportunity to meet members of the club responsible for sending the parcels. “I wanted to thank them,” he said simply. ‘‘S arted with Moses” It was diuicult when speaking of travel to know where it really started, said Mr Warren. He thought perhaps it had started with Moses. Not even Thomas Cook, in all his glory, had moves like Moses. No quartermaster in the British Army ever had anything like Moses to contend with —floods, tidal waves and famines. When travelling it was an interesting hobby to study place names, he said. In Hong Kong he had found himself in the middle of Aberdeen, but the place of that name was nothing like Scotland’s Aberdeen. Mr Warren was introduced by the president of the club. Sir Joseph Ward, whom he met in Liverpool in 1936. and .n London in 1947. Mr Warren said he had met Sir Joseph Ward’s father, Sir Cyril Ward, in Christchurch in 1934. Mrs Warren, who accompanied hej husband x to New Zealand in 1938 in the course of a worid tour, said they visited only the North Island on that occasion. Now she hoped to see something of the South Island. She was looking forward to seeing Mount Cook. Before the last world war she had worked on various women’s committees, including the Liverpool Maternity Hospital. Her husband had served in the Army in World Wars I and 11. He had served for five years in the army in World War I, when he was stationed in India. During the Second World War he was on port duty in the United Kingdom, and for three years they were stationed in Northern Ireland. She helped with canteen work during the war. Mr and Mrs Warren will visit Dunedin, and Mount Cook before they leave New Zealand in about three weeks for Australia ion their return trip to England. Mrs J. Denford. chairman of the Food for Britain Committee of the club, thanked Mr Warren for his talk, and told of the pleasure the packing of parcels for Britain had given members of her committee.