WOMEN IN PRINT.

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 152, 24 December 1918, Page 9

WOMEN IN PRINT.

The matron of the Hospital acknowledges gifts received for wounded soldiers in the Military Ward from the Countes of Liverpool, Hutt Patriotic Guild, Mrs. M'Menainin, Salvation Army, Soldiers' Comforts Guild. Y.M'.C.A., Mr. Cornish's Santa Claus Club, Sirs. Willis, New Zealand News Co., Private G.. Barrett, the Mayoress, Ladies' Guild (Natives Association), staff of Land and Income-tax Department, Mr. and Mrs. Luke. For' the General Hospital: Girfts from Mrs. F G. Tonks, Mrs, Nathan, Lady Stout, Art Gallery, Red Cross Society, Mrs. Hills, Miss Price, Defence Department, Mrs. J. P. Luke, Mrs. Clark, Miss Z. Nathan. For Children's Ward: Gifts from Mrs. V. Eiddiford, Mrs. Meyers, Mr. Cook, Mr. Waterworth, Dr. Waterworth, W.E.B. For the Fever Ward : During the epidemic gifts from Mrs. Tripe, Wellington North centre, Mrs. Crosby, Mrs. Ramsay, Mr. Bailey. Rev. Fathers Devoy and Campbell. For the Clifton-terrace Hospital; Gifts from The Terace School, Mr. Meuli, Miss Brodriok, and Mrs. Tringham.

Miss Huzel Fuller is spending her Christmas holidays in Queen Charlotte Sound.

Misses Evelyn and Una Dawson have gone to Napier and Hastings for the holidays.

Miss H. Skinner has left on a 6hort visit to her relatives in Dunedin.

The Mayoress (Mrs. Luke) has returned from a short visit to Napier in company with Mrs. G. A. Macdonald.

Miss Mina Caldow has gone to Aucklandy where she is to take part in'an organ recital by Mr. Maughan Barnett on Christmas night.

Miss Hester M'Lean is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Valintine at Silverstream.

Mrs. B. V. Pemberton and her two children have left, on a holiday trip to Picton.

The engagement is announced of Miss Vera Humphries, third daughter of Mr. H: Humphries, of Napier, to Major W H. Johnson, M.C., late N.Z.E.F.. younger son of Captain H. Johnson, of Wellington.

There will be the usual Christmas tree at the Children's Hospital to-morrow evening, to which happy function the members of the Hospital Board have been invited: At the Ohiro Home a. special Christmas dinner will cheer the inmates, and during the evening an entertainment will be given to fittingly conclude tho bright day that is promised.

An interesting 'ceremony took place at the Wellington Receiving Home on Friday, when Mrs. E. S. Dick, for eighteen years manager of that institution, was farewelled by the staff, and also by many of those under her care. Mrs. A. S. Johnston, who' has been associated with Mrs. Dick for about twelve years, wished her a long and happy life of retirement, and at the same time handed her a silver entree dish, suitably inscribed, as a slight token of esteem from the whole stall. An adjournment was made to the dining-room, where a number of bright young girls, most of whom had been under Mrs. Dick's care since infancy, then ; took' the opportunity to present their much-loved guardian,.with a china teaset- Many of the girls 'were much affected at losing one for whom they have a deep affection. Afternoon tea was then dispensed. Mrs. E. S. Dick, who was well known in the whole of the Wellington district, will be much missed in the valuable work which she has for so many years ably and conscientiously managed, controlling as she did nearly seven hundred children, ranging in ages from mere infants to twenty-one years. There were' 1 few of intelligent age who were not in personal touch with their guardian. The boarding-out system now so widely approved owes much of its success to the wide sympathy and high ideals of its manager. Numerous boys and girls, many of whom are now married, owe their success in life to the wise counsel and suitable control that has always been exercised by Mrs. Dick.

Thejate Miss Lousia Chapman, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. H Chapman, of Palmerston Korth (formerly of the Hutt), whose death was announced yesteday, was educated in Palmerston North, afterwards going to Vie-, toria College, where she gained her B.A. degree last year Since then, Miss Chapman has been on the staff of the Secondary Department of the Stratford High School. A few days ago she underwent a very serious operation. Deep sympathy will be felt for the members of Miss Chapman's family, who only last week received advice of the death on active service of her younger brother, a member of the N.Z.F.A.

The annual meeting of the Wellington Central " W.C.T.U. was held in the V.M.C.A., Mrs. A. R. Atkinson presiding. The annual reports and balancesheet were read and adopted. The following officers were re-elected :—President, Mrs. A. R. Atkinson; treasurer, Mrs. Helyer; recording secretary, Mrs. Clark; corresponding secretary and press reporter, Miss Helyer; superintendents of departments, hygiene, Mrs. M'Donald ; literature, Mrs. Canghley; work among' sailofs, Mrs. Nimmo; White Ribbon, Mrs. Port. Several letters, recently rer ceived by Miss Ivimmo from sailors who had been provided with, warm clothing from the stocks sent Home -last year by the W.C.T.U., were read. Some of these letters_ were from men who had lost their kits in torpedoed vessels, and all spoke of the gifts received in most grateful terms.

The matron of the Ohiro Home acknowledges with thanks the receipt of Christmas- cheer from tho Mayoress and Lady Stout, Mrs. W. Ferguson, Messrs. R. Hannah and Co., Mrs. R: C. Kirk. Mrs. B. K. Read, Messrs. George and George.

Several generous Palmerston North, residents have banded themselves together for the purpose of trying to make this Christmas a little brighter for some than the four previous seasons of Christmas have been. They have decided that this could best be attained by doing something for the kiddies of the town. It was decided that it should take the form of a delivery of toys on Christmas morning to every child. in the borough under twelve. The delivery Will be by cars, each one manned by a, Father Christmas, who will call at every house within the borough boundary

that the girls who belong to the club do really practical work of such use to the country; they are always ready in any emergency to help, although as a rule they are hi offices all day, their effort for 'Our Day" being earned out on Saturday i afternoons, their only available time.' Much praise is due_ to Miss Port for her splendid, untiring, and able work as leader. The Headquarters Executive at its last meeting accorded her a very hearty vote of appreciation for services rendered. Miss Black,'also a member of the club, went to Auckland at the time of the epidemic, and nursed for a week, then returned to Wellington and nursed at one of tho temporary hospitals for a fortnight. Every member in some way or other gave very whole-hearted help at the time of the epidemic. The club opens at the end of January, and a letter is to be forwarded to her expressive of the executive's thanks.

One of the most radical features of the plan of the United States Employment Service, designed to bring into the war industries men engaged in non-essential industries, was the publication in the daily papers of lists of occupations in which men could be replaced by women. The inference,, says the' New York Times, was that the men who persisted in remaining in those occupations would be confessed industrial slackers. With the cessation of hostilities the contemplated organisation may not have been completed, but the arrangements were decidedly thorough and exhaustive. "After the propriety of using women in a given industry has been passed upon by the board the United States Employment Sevvice is to give every assistance in filling the demand," ays the Times, "in forecasting the women's work movement. Tn the second order two women • are added to tho community labour boards, one to represent the woman who works, the other to represent the management. They are to have full voting power 'on all questions concerning the utilisation of women in the industries. Regulations to protect women from being drawn into employments that would be injurious to them, or for which they are otherwise unfitted have been drawn up as follows :—First—Whether the kind of work is one which it is proper 'for women to perform. Second—Whether the conditions surrounding the 'particular job ate such that it is proper for women to be employed at that particular place and under existing conditions. Third— What, if any, modifications in the conditions must be made in order that the employment of women l may bo sanctioned. Fourth—What, if any, limitations are necessary as to the ages of women to be emeployed or otherwise."

Women patrol work has had extraordinary developments (says the Loudon Daily Telegraph. A patrol organiser went to South Africa in 1915, and so successful were her efforts that policewomen .were appointed in Cape Town, and there are now policewomen in several other towns. In Toronto . a 'Girls' Protective League 1' is working on women patrol liner,, full information having- been sent to the organiser from the central office. Good accounts of the. ■activities of the women patrols in New York have been received. From New Zealand and Australia come frequent inquiries,- and the latest developments are reported foi^ the Hifrfi Commissioner's information. , In 1917 women patrols, exact copies 'of the British patrols, with , tho same rules and instructions, were, put on the streets of Breslan. In Dublin some of the women patrols have become policewomen acting under the Chief Commissioner of Police; while in Belfast there are two policewomen who are most efficient. In both places there is a band of excellent voluntary women I patrols, to whose- admirable work these official appointments are entirely due. j A training school for women police and women patrols is shortly to bo opened [ in Glasgow. . In England and Wales 120 centres have' been organised, and in more than twenty places, %s a direct result of this, women police have been i appointed.