Personalities

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 190, 8 May 1937, Page 5 (Supplement)

Personalities

Miss C. E. Kirk, who last week retired from the position of secretary to the Society for the Protection of "Women and Children, a position which she has held for the past 15 years. She has done much excellent work to enlarge and improve the scope of the society, and it is largely due to her untiring interest and efficiency that this body has become the social asset which it now is. The society aims at bettering the domestic conditions for women and children, and it is easily recognisable that to do this successfully de mands a high degree of tact and understanding in the members; this Miss Kirk undoubtedly possessed, and she further had the rare gift of inspiring confidence and trust in all those with whom she into contact. Miss Kirk has also been a member of the National Council of "Women for a considerable number of years, being for some years president, and now occupying the position of Dominion president. In this, as in the sphere she has just left, she has done much excellent and lasting work.

MRS. 11. JOWETT. Mrs. 11. Jowett, busy president of the Plunket Society in Wellington, is responsible for much of the organisation for the Street Day Appeal on the day before the Coronation— Tuesday, May 11. Jlrw. Jowett has a flair for organisation which has proved invaluable to her committee, and together they have done much to help the cause of the society. Iler interest in Plunket affairs is a long-standing one. More than 15 years ago Mrs. Jowett became the first secretary of the sub-committee formed at Eastbourne, and s-he was responsible for starting the first relief committee nt the time of the depression, before Mayoral relief was started. She was elected to the executive committee of the Plunket Society, and two years ago was made president.