RESIDENTIAL NURSERY

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 228, 23 June 1936, Page 4

RESIDENTIAL NURSERY

In the absence of Mrs. L. 0. H. Tripp, Mrs. F. Porter presided at the monthly meeting of the executive committee of the Residential Nursery, Owen Street The matron’s report stated that the month had been exceedingly busy and that the health of the children had been good. The hon. treasurer, Mrs. Wiltshire, reported donations, from:- Mrs. Ardell, Lyall Bay branch, Lower Hutt, Seatoun, Island Bay circle, Khandallah branch. The management committee of the Residential Nursery also met recently. The matron expressed grateful thanks for the amount of very useful gifts sent to the nursery, which had been most acceptable, the most useful being wood,’ fruit, vegetables and mending wools. The matron and committee wish to thank the following for their gifts in kind: Mesdames Barclay, BinetBrown, Sister Collins, Mesdames Alee Crawford, Downer, Ardell, Evans. Ross, Otway, Milligan, Millward, MacKay, Stichbury,; Goldsmith, Mc-Mahon, Hewitt, Knapp, Porter, Hargreaves, Olsen, Waugh, Franklin, D. H. Taylor, Lambourne, Wells, Misses Sheppard, Bryan, Bennett, Hall, Wiltshire, Downward (Masterton), Dr. and Mrs. Kemp, Messrs. H. E. Taylor, Irvine. Elliott and the Kelburn branch.

Never before has there been so mueh interest in the annual Charity Bail, which is to be held in the Town Hall to-morrow. The gallery reservations are phenomenal. The chief interest, of course, centres in the sixty debutantes to be presented to His Grace Archbishop O’Shea.. The spectacle of sixty debutantes and their partners taking the dancing floor subsequent to the presentation should be a brilliant one The decorations of the half promise to outdo anything before attempted by the organisers.