SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3126, 3 July 1917, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Trentham Camp Circulating Library, The Trentham Camp circulating library, established by Jliss liothenberg, was opened for tho too of officers 'and men yesterday. The library is a small bright room in Hid Church of England Institute, this being the n'.ost convenient place. At present there are rows of shelves on two sides of tho room, and tho other sides are. being shelved to accommodate, the 1500 books now in hand. Through the kindness of Messrs. J. Nathan and Co., Miss liothenberg is enabled to furnish the library. Cork linoleum is being laid on the floor, khaki nrt canvas curtains with red bands bein" on tho windows, and an easy chair,

upholstered in brown, will bo placed in a convenient corner. Chaplain-Major Taylor has kindly consented to act as librarian. Miss Rot.hei.bcrg wishes to again thank all who havo kindly helped her in tho work.

Makuri Red Cross Work. Subscriptions to tho Makuri branch of tho lied Cross aro as follow:—Mr. H. Coom, .C 2; Mrs. Coom, J!l 10?-; Mws Bennett. .I'l 10s.i Mrs. Morrison, 55.; Mrs. Itnnkin, 2s. 6d.; Mrs. Olson. 2s. (id.; Miss Weston, 2s. fid.; Mrs. PhiUips, 25.; Miss Moore, 2 pairs socks, 2 hot water ba-s; Mrs. Tylee. 1 pair pyjamas, (■ faco cloths, 2 shirts; Mrs. liaison, 5 Pah-s * »Wri»; Mrs. Wormwi. 6 face cloths, -5 shirts, 1. pair pyjamas. 1 r a mittens'; Miss Bennett, 1 pair pyjamas: Mrs. M'Guire, 2 pairs «*ks; Mn,. 1 ""'field. 1 scarf. 1 shirt, 3 face cloths, pair P 7 amas; Miss Mason, 2 shirs; infoi. , 12 face cloths. 3 shirts; Mtaos I'oulton, i pairs socks, 6 shirts.

Countess of Liverpool Fund Committee. Tho monthly meeting of the Countess of Liverpool Fund Committee was held it to Town Hall yesterday morning. Until the arrival of tho Mayoress (Sirs IP Luke) tho chair was occupied by TadV Ward, and members of tho committee present comprised tie folowing, -Mesdanies Ashendon, Aston *°™n nn >> B-ice Murphy, Townsend, P"™? , - C u no, Barltrop, W. Rattan. TpPP,, A. Crawford (hon. secretary), and M. 11 jew (assistant-secretary). , , Various correspondence was tmci ny the secretary, and a discussion followed , pon the need of sending moWy help to tm High Commissioner in London to prov de parcels for the prisoners of war. Mrs. Nathan moved, and Jr. Tnpp seconded, that £10 per month be sent in, conjunction with the, other•centres, unM December next, and that tho sum of £30 to cover tho ensuing months be sent at ° n it' was proposed and carried unanimously that an appeal be made through tho Press for funds to provide Christmas gifts for the men in tho trenches. Mrs. Tripp proposed, and Mrs. Crawford seconded, that a hearty vote of thanks be passed to Mrs. Murphy and hef generous gentlemen, helpers wlio came three nights running atter their own day's work to solder up tho tins or cake which were placed in the parcels packed in tho Town Hall last Thursday. Contributions were received by tho committee at tho Town Hall last weeK from tho following-Levin Patriotic Guild. Dannevirke Patriotic timid, Oh an Red Cross Working Guild, Terrace Congregational Church Club,. Mrs Coming (Shannon), Waituna Knitting Guild, Karori Women's National lleserve, Mrs. Ritchie, Stratford Ladies' Patriotic Committee, Mrs. Tustin, members- of Iheosopliical Society, "Nurse" (per Mrs. Bluiidell), Mrs. Denton, Sown Wellington Knitting Guild.

All subscribers and helpers at the Rod Cross Depot in Mercer Street, and those helpers who take work to their homes to do, are invited to uttend the reception which is to bo given to Mrs. VY. J. , . Massey and Lady Ward on Thursday at the Town Hall, and also the conference on the following daj\

Tho following amounts were received at the Town. Hall last week towards the parcels for the men at the front-.-bulls, £2- Woodville, £5; Marton, £6; Waverlov .£5; Rangataua, M; Mangituroa, via liactihi, -C 3; Miss Hancock, 2s. (id.

Tho sum of .£l9 19s. fid. was collected bv tho Mayoress (Mrs. J. P. Luke) and handed, in last week to her Christmas Pudding Fund.

Tho Hon. D. Buddo and Mrs. Buddo and family have arrived in Wellington for the session, and have taken up residence at 37 Featherston Terrace.

There were packed at the Town Hall last week 1800 parcels for the men at the front by the Countess of Liverpool Fund helpers and ono thousand by the Citizens' Service League.

This morning the Mayoress (Mrs. Luke) and abont thirty helpers go out to Ngahauranga to commence the making or the Christmas puddings for tho soldiers at the front. Mr. Foster, the manager of the Wellington Meat Company, has most kindly placed at the disposal of the workers the same building and utensils that they were given the use of last year for tho same work.

.Contributions from tho following have been received at the Red Cross Depot in Mercer Street during the past week:— Mrs M. Alistair, Waikanae Girls' Club, Carnarvon, lied Cross Guild, Foxtou GirU' Guild, New Plymouth Centre .British Red Cross, Red Cross Committee (Dannevirke), Hunterville Red Cross Cornmitteo, ICarori National Reserve, Rakanui Red Cross, Miss. Davidson, Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool, Island Bay School, Mrs. Mills, Women s National Reserve, Khandallah, Waveriey Patriotic League, Hastings Red Cross Workers, Makuri ]led Cross Workers, Mrs Hassall, Wellington Catholic Knitting Guild, Mrs. Shirtcliffe, Red Cross Workers (Havelock North).

News of Nurses. According to a London correspondent of .May J/jj Miss Edith I'Viu-child, y.A.i.Al'.[!.S,!l{. (Wellington;, who has seen long service in Iranco, has teen nl>nointeu niatron at Hie Jielinont Hospital, Sutton, Surrey. News of other nurses states that Stafl'-iNurso Af.. M. C'oates, 22/355, lias Ijeuli at the Convalescent itonie at Sandwich, but has now resumed duty; Stnff-Kurso I , '. Hart, 22/393, is at Brockeulrurst, from the 3rd N'.Z. General Hospital, Codford, with granular pharyngitis; Mies Clark is in charge of tho Massagu .Department, Hornchiirch; Sister A. lnglis has been appointed sub-malron at tiio I'orest J'ark section, and the valuable work done by Sister A. "Wood, in charge of huts, lias been brought to the notice of I tho Secretary «f Stnto lor War.

Sistur Lnlia. Miller, formerly of Na])ier, who, two years ago, went first to Egypt aw then to England to nurso wounded soldiers, is now helping to found ;i hospital for paralysed soldiers, states a iS'apicr exchange. The building, which was formerly the private residence of Mrs. Waiidingham, an Englishwoman of means, who is turning it into a soldiers' home, contains over thirty rooms, aid is being elaborately fitted with all tho necessary requisites. Thero is to bo an electric lending lamp and a telephone in every room, tho furnishing of which is to be left in tho hands of Sister Miller. Sister Miller received her training at the Napier Hospital, and .was subsequently matron of the Pahiatua Public Hospital. In a letter to her mother, she Rives :in account of her visit to the Albert Hall on Good Friday, to hear tho

"Messiah/ , Sister Miller, who occupied a box above tho Koyal box, describes tho latteT, which, sho says, bears a great gilt crown surmounted t>y a lion. It is Sister Miller's intention to return to New Zealand as Boon as opportunity offers.

"I would liko to see na experiment made," said Dr. Elizabeth M'Donnld at tlio conference between inspectors and teachers of schools in 'Auckland on Friday, "in tlio direction of providing hot meals and suitable meals for the children attending school, especially during the winter." Jlany of them, she continued, get nothing to rat except a bit of lunch in the niiddlo of J;he clay, between breakfast in the morning and a hot dinner af night, ana something warm and nourishing during the day would bo a great advantage. If the suggestion for a hot luncheon were not workable, she was of the opinion, that children should have their hot dinner as soon as they got home from school. One of the teachers present stated that lie had recently instituted a scheme of the kind, but was. not yet in a position to say whether it was satisiactory or not. Another teacher expressed the opinion that it 'would 1)0 unsatisfactory. He had tried it years aw, hs said, but 'found that after it had been in operation for a time one. child 'wanted coffee, another tea, and another hot milk, with tho result that ho hail to. give it up altogether.