C.W.I. Cheque For Cancer Society

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30897, 2 November 1965, Page 2

C.W.I. Cheque For Cancer Society

' A cheque for £5O was presented to the Dominion president of the Cancer Society (Mr L. A. Bennett) by the president of the Bryndwr Country Women’s Institute (Mrs G. E. MacLachlan) yesterday.

The presentation was made •t a function to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the institute. The money will go to the Canterbury-Westland division of the society for a new microscope. . Mr Bennett said cancer research was a matter of world importance. "I cannot think of a better way in which you can celebrate your twentyfifth anniversary. Perhaps by the time you celebrate your fiftieth anniversary we shall be able to say that some cancers are being cured,” he ■aid. Some progress was being made. The laboratory now established In Christchurch was doing good work and had made some important contributions. Much work was done using microscopes and the money would be used either for an attachment to a microscope or for a new one. said Mr Bennett. Mrs MacLachlan said that in recent years women had become increasingly conscious of the need to help fight cancer. It was to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Bryndwr C.W.I. that members decided to organise a project chat would result in tangible aid, she said. Ewlier, Mrs MacLachlan wthned the institute’s history. “When nine women of this district, together with two voluntary organisers, derided to form a branch of the women’s institute movement. I doubt whether any realised the seed they were sowing would mature into an instiItute of Bryndwr’s size ” she Maid. L i

Many of those present had been members of the institute for long periods—some since its first year of existence. Many familiar names had appeared regularly in the minutes over the last 25 years. “I am sure that several of these would be more qualified than I to recall those earlier years,” she said. “Over the years we have had our joys and sorrows. Members have taken their part in assisting community projects and entertaining groups of disabled and elderly people. “They have also been active in the higher phases of the C.W.I. movement as voluntary organisers and as members of the federation executive,” said Mrs MacLachlan. The anniversary was marked by a luncheon in St. Barnabas’ Church hall before a programme of folk dances and singing from Europe.