WIDE ACTIVITIES

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 66, 10 December 1938, Page 6

WIDE ACTIVITIES

Women's National Reserve Annual Meeting UNOSTENTATIOUS WORK Admiration for the work being done by the Women’s National Reserve was expressed by Mr. R. McKeen at the annual general meeting, held yesterday afternoon in the Educational Institute rooms. Mr. McKeen, who seconded the motion to adopt the annual report and balance sheet, said he bad been keenly interested in the work of the reserve for many years. As a member of Parliament he knew the extent of its activities, which were less ostentatious than those of any other organization of which he knew. He congratulated the reserve on the recent donation of £l5O from art union funds, and added that the Government looked on such organizations as theirs as a national necessity. In years to come, be said, their activities would probably widen. He spoke of the history of the reserve and its beginnings during the war when, immediately, it was of assistance to the Government. The work done by tire reserve con-

sists of running the Residential Nursery in Owen Street, looking after graves at the soldiers and sailors' memorial cemetery and sending money and hampers for picnics and other outings to patients at the I’orirua hospital. Mr. McKeen spoke of the value of every branch of the work, and said he hoped the reserve would always be blessed with the favour of local and national government authorities. In conclusion he congratulated the members, specially Mrs. L. O. H. Tripp (president), Mrs. Florence Porter (honorary organizing secretary), the matron and sister of the nursery, and all those who had assisted them in their activities.

Mrs. McKeen accompanied her husband, and with them on the platform were Mrs. Tripp, who presided, Mrs. A. B. Gibbons, Mrs. Porter, Mrs. D. H. Guthrie and Mrs. H. Parkinson (treasurer). Mrs. Tripp welcomed Mr. and Mrs. McKeen.

As no annual meeting was held last year the annual reports for two years were adopted. Last year Mrs. Tripp was abroad and in her absence Mrs. Gibbons was president. Mrs. Gibbons read the 1937 report and Mrs. Tripp that for 1938. Traffic Officers’ Ball. Thanks to all who had worked with enthusiasm during the past two years were expressed by Mrs. Tripp. She mentioned specially the matron and sister at the nursery, and Mrs. Guthrie and Miss Wiltshire, who have done the greater part of the organizing of the welfare branch. Appreciation was also expressed of the kindness of the Wellington traffic, officers, who divided the proceeds of their recent ball between the Residential Nursery and the Citizens’ Day Nursery. Mrs. Tripp said that the officers had worked untiringly to make the ball a success, and their decorative scheme had been wonderful. It was unfortunate, she said, that the ball had been held on the day before the general election, but they were deeply grateful for the money they had received, and for the work which the traffic officers and their wives had put into raising it. Election of Officers. The election of officers resulted as follows: —President, Mrs. L. O. H. Tripp; secretary, Miss Nellie Taylor; treasurer, Mrs. H. Parkinson; organizing secretary, Mrs. Florence Porter: council, Mesdames L. O. H. Tripp, Beales, A. B. Gibbons, T. F. Walshe, A. T. Wells. D. H. Guthrie, Marshall, Hooson, A. R. Otway, F. Porter, H. Parkinson, T. O. Corliss and A. F. Tonks, Miss Taylor and a representative of the Sea to tin branch.

Proposing the re-election of both Mrs. Tripp and Mrs. Porter, members praised the work which they were both doing. It was due to Mrs. Porter, said Mrs. Tripp, that the reserve had started. and she had been an inspiration to them ever since.

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