WOMEN’S FACILITIES AT NEW AIR TERMINAL

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28921, 15 June 1959, Page 2

WOMEN’S FACILITIES AT NEW AIR TERMINAL

The room at the Christchurch airport termini] building especially designed*, for women with young childreh will soon be a boon to travelling mothers. The wallpaper used is restful, but modern and gay. It is composed of alternate squares containing birds. jardiniers of flowers and a floral design picked out in light blue, beige, white and green. A baby's cradle, a cot. a playpen, a high chair and a low table with children’s chairs are among the amenities to accommodate young passengers. The room was not yet fully furnished and more easy chairs, a divan, a rocking-horse and some children’s playthings were yet to come, the airport hostess. Miss J. White-Parsons said on Saturday. Nevertheless, the room is already fully in use by travelling mothers and on Saturday, a hostess was cooing over a baby girl resting in her cot while her bottle of milk was being warmed at a nearby bench. In the same room there is a steel basin fitted with high-looped swinging taps to enable bottles to be rinsed or filled. A toilet off the nursery has a special seat-fitting for children. Star Design The attractive women's powder room, reminiscent of those in an up-to-date night club overseas, was greeted with remarks of admiration from many women visitors at the week-end. The wall-paper with a soft blue ground is evenly sprinkled with small white stars. Make-up benches on two sides of the room, repeat the star design on red plastic surfaces. Good local lighting over the continuous mirrors above the benches, will enable women to repair the ravages of

travel fatigue in comfort, when the stools, not yet in position, complete the room. A pleasant change in the toilet enclosures is that each door is painted a different colour: primrose, blue, pink and wine Detracting slightly from the convenience of the women’s rooms is the entrance passage which is too narrow for outgoing and incoming traffic to pass comfortably. Hostess Quarters Off the nursery is a duty room for air hostesses. The attractive wallpaper conveys the suggestion of pink crinoline figures on a solid blue ground, contrasting pleasingly with the red-painted door. The wallpaper in the hostesses’ off-duty room upstairs, repeats the same motif with red and grey figures on a white ground. Grey-blue linoleum and one wall painted in solid blue, harmonise in this pleasing room which, when fully furnished, should be an ideal place for hostesses to relax between flights. A hostess from Australia, speaking of the facilities provided for colleagues and for women travellers said she had seen nothing to compare in' her own country.