MISS R. BARLEE BACK AT WORK

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29336, 15 October 1960, Page 2

MISS R. BARLEE BACK AT WORK

Former City Y.W.CX Official Miss Rosemary Barlee, a former programme secretary of the Christchurch Y.W.C-A., who has been in Melbourne Hospital suffering from leukaemia, will not return home to England before next May on doctor’s orders, says the October newsletter of the Christchurch Y.W.C.A. Miss Barlee is able to work again and is now assistant-matron of the .Methodist Ladies’ College, Melbourne. Christchurch friends of Miss Barlee opened a fund to help her to pay her passage home when they heard of her illness. The fund has now reached more than £lOO. “Rosemary Barlee has been very moved by the way in which her New Zealand friends have rallied round her,” says Miss B. J. Hardie in the newsletter. Miss Barlee was a staff officer at the Christchurch Y.W.C.A. for five yean when she was appointed national extension secretary of the Y.W.C.A. of Australia," in February 1959. Because of her enthusiasm, the Y.W.C.A.’s camp at Spencerville was established and she was its director. ■The eamp is full of memories of Rosemary, the warm-hearted girl from Dublin,” said Miss Hardie. “Plans to extend the camp are under way and it has been suggested that one of the new rooms should be named the ‘Rosemary Room.’”