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Evening Post, Issue 23, 28 January 1931, Page 13

HERE AND THERE

Civic Facilities. Parent's with young children are often faced with feeding difficulties when an overseas journey is undertaken, and it is not generally known that the Wellington City Council Milk Depot will supply milk suitably prepared for use when travelling. The milk is sterilised at a temperature of 212 degrees, and sealed in sterile bottles, and is then ready to be put in the cool store of the ship for use throughout the journey. The practice has obtained for some years at the municipal milk depot, but although doctors and Plunket nurses know of it, there are many to whom it will be "news." Another point of interest in connection with Wellington's municipal milk is that at the new station in Tory street special provision is being made for visitors, and womenfolk will be glad to learn that an inspection of the plant will not then enjail any risk of grubbiness or damage to pretty clothes. There will be a visitors' gallory and reception-room, and every facility and convenience will be given those who wish to see over the building. At a private company's milk depot at Los Angeles, America, there is a convention hall provided, which is used for social purposes not only by the employees but by many_ of the women's organisations in the city, thus arousing the interest and support of housewives for an hygienic milk supply. While a convention hall is a little beyond the scope of Wellington's new station, the arrangements noted above are an indication of the ready .welcome which awaits all who wish to make fi tour of inspection, and it is hoped that j many women will bo among the visitors when the station is opened next month and visitors' hours determined. Near Perfection. j Mention ia made in an exchange of the Wilhelinina Hospital, at Amsterdam, Holland, which is given up to maternity work chiefly, and is said to bo a model of thoroughness in every department. The mothers who aro fortunate enough to go to this wonderful hospital have every modern care that science can devise. There aro one hundred and seventy beds, half for disoascsi'of women and half for maternity cases. The leading professor of these subjects takes his classes there, and there is every equipment in tho lecture hall, diagrams, cinematograph, etc., that can be imagined as lending point and assistance to tho lectures. In connection with this statement, it seems to point a way by which further education could be given to students without insisting on a number of the patients being used for demonstration purposes, perhaps trenching on privacy or damaging sensitive feelings. The hospital has its own X-ray, ultra-violet, and 'diathermy equipment, and is open night and day. There is a laboratory for chemicai and bacteriological work, and there are general, special, and babies' wards. If a, mother comes in for treatment her

babfy comes too. There are incubators for premature infants, and an isolation ward for septic cases. The expectant mothers have a separate ward, as do the further developed cases. The nurses have tTie top floor of the threestory building, and thero also is <i museum with plaster casts, models, etc. Tho suggestion ia made that this is the sort of hospital which should be prepared to welcome the long-looked-for • Professor of Obstetrics, whose advent in New Zealand will be regarded with special interest by all those who helped to gather the fund which made tho appointment possible. As part of his York will be in training students, and 1 that has, so faiyprcsented some difficulties, tho suggestions made may hnvo some value. A Wedding Party. . Many dinner parties and an evening's dancing at the Adclphi Cabaret followed tho reception given yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Sloman at the wedding of their daughter, Joy, to Mr. John Agar, of Melbourne. The cabaret ■ rooms looked most attractive with masses of blue hydrangeas and pink swecr.pcas. In tho afternoon, tea was served to the guests at small tables on which were dainty vases of blue and pink flowers, but in the evening tho rooms were cleared again for dancing. ' Among tho dancers were: Mrs. E. Bayley, Mr. and Mrs. Morton Pater--1 son, Mr. and Mrs. Lan Hamilton (Hawkes Bay), Mr. and Mrs. W. G. A. ' Gill, Misses Joyce and Thyra Gill,'Enid Lawson, Dinah Sloman, Phyllis Agar ; (Melbourne), Margaret Whyte, Penelope Blundell, Nell Bayley (Hastings), Betty Parr, Jocelyn and Pamela Riddi- : ford, Cherry Anderson (Auckland), Joy Upton, Annette ■ Thorne-George ' (Auckland),n Muriel Frazer, Alison Pcarce, Moira Hunter, Lulu Morice, 1 Nancy Wheeler, and Mary M'Lean; 1 Messrs. J. Vogel, Douglas Young, Warwick Blundell, Dennis Young, J. Bris- ■ ted, J. M'Callum, G. Myers, F. Cole 1 (Melbourne), D. Webster, T. W. Williams, T. E. M'Gregor, P. Whyte, Brian ! Eoid, W. Turnbull, W. Airey, _K. ' Davys, and Dr. R. Stout. Music Teachers Registration. A meeting of the Registration Board, appointed under tho Music Teachers Registration Act, was held in Christ- , church yesterday. ' Up to the end of , December, anyone who had been teaching for a certain period could bo rej gistered, but after that date an applicant was required to have certain quali- . fications (states the Christehureh i "Times"). A large number of appli- '. cations from teachers who had been in , business before the end of December ! last was received, and tho board still had some 500 to go through. i Lengths, Hems, and Hats. "In the street any length you like, ' but a good deal below tho knee, of 1 course," remarked Mrs. G. D. Green- ' wood of frock lengths at Home in the course of an interview with "The Post" to-day. Mrs. Greenwood, who ' has boon abroad since May last, had other interesting comments to make on 1 the trend of fashion, saying that tailor- ' mados were fairly short ■ (although ■ longer than they had been), but even- '< ing dresses were absolutely down to 1 the ground. Afternoon dresses were [ sometimes quite long, but jagged edges or anything in the nature of an uneven hemline had now practically "gone 1 out" altogether, and perfectly straight 1 hemlines were worn. Skirts of even- \ ing frocks were most voluminous. Verjf small or large hats were most popular. ! Black and white as a combination of ' colours was very much worn, and black L velvet coats trimmed with white fur— " from ermine to rabbit —were seen quite [ frequently. In fact, velvet was a ma- ' terial used a good deal, and as to col- ' ours, turquoise was coming to tho [ with turquoiso jewellery, real or ; imitation, to match. Prices in general | were down tremendously, but while ; cheap things were amazingly cheap, ', dearly-priced models still remained expensive. . Noted in Australia. ! The effective control of pedestrian > traffic in Adelaide is a point remarked i on by Miss M. Magill, who has just ) returned from a teachers' conference in : that city. In the casual habit of a . Wellingtonian, Miss Magill crossed an , Adelaide street at an angle very far 1 removed from the right angle which 1 is insisted on in this progressive AusL tralian town, and was immediately arrested for jay-walking! Another thing which had impressed her was the thick, hot clothes worn by the high school boys in Sydney, despite the heat, and she had spoken of this in interviews and told of the more sensible dress adopted in boys' schools here. A mat- ' tor seldom discussed at a teachers' cpn--5 fcrence, but one which was brought up at the gathering of the Federated State ! Schools Teachers' Association delegates ' in Adelaide, was "aviation," a motion \ being passed urging the importance of I the development of aviation in Australia and recommending the enterprise 1 to tho Departments of Education and L the schools.