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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1933, Page 11

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A "Motto" Calendar. Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Bledisloe have both sent "mottoes" for the motto engagement calendar, which Mrs. Henry Hall is compiling, in aid of the funds of the Mothers'i Helpers. The preparations are now well under way, and Mrs. Hall hopea to get all contributions in as soon as possible. The calendar will be an unusual one, and when completed, will contain many interesting names. At the Tecent meeting .-of : the Mothers' Helpers Committee, it was decided to hold a large bridge party early in May for which Mrs. Dyer has kindly offered to lend a room at the Midland Hotel. Legion of Frontiersmen Entertain. Members of "I" Squadron Legion of Frontiersmen gave a very enjoyable dance recently in their club rooms, Victoria Street. ,The large main room was used for daneingj the music being provided by a Maori orchestra, the members of which gave items during the evening. The Squadron Commander, Captain "W. Nicholls, was present, and with him1, were Lieutenants Preston,. McMaster, and E. J. Lloyd. St. Paul's Mothers' Union. Mrs. Percival James entertained the members of St. Paul's Mothers' Union recently to tea at the Vicarage, and a very interesting address was • given by Miss James, a sister of Canon Pereival James, who is on furlough from Fiji. . Miss James described her work among the ;Melanesiansi who are taught at the schools, the latter being started a few years ago against great opposition. Mrs. Townley and Mrs. Alexander gave great pleasure with their singing and a very enjoyable afternoon was spent. "'■ • Women's National Reserve. The annual meeting of the "Women's National Reserve, Residential Nursery will be held on Friday, April 7, at 3 p.m., in the New Zealand Educational Institute, "Evening Post" Building, "Willis Street. All members, friends, and sympathisers are cordially welcome. A Shop Girl Heroine. Incredible though it may seem, Mts. Elinor Glyn ("Grannie Glyn," as she asks to be called), has only, just made her first speech in England (states the London "Daily Mail"). Speaking at a luncheon on behalf of a movement in connection with girls' clubs, she announced that she felt honoured at being asked to speak on the subject, especially at a time when she was working hard on a new book. The heroine is to be a shop girl employed:at a dressmaking establishment near Woolworths in Oxford Street, outside which building every evening at seven .o'clock she catches an omnibus for her home in Shepherd's Bush. , Obituary. The many friends of Mrs. M. J. Quinn will regret to hear of her death, which occurred on Monday last at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. V. 6. Parkin, Lower Hutt. The late Mrs. Quinn, when three months old, arrived with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Mar-

shall, from Glasgow ia' the sailing ship Indiana, in the year 1859, settling at Little Akaroa, Banks Peninsula. Mrs. Quinn spent her early girlhood in the district with, her parents,' where they were engaged in farming. A family of six daughters—Mrs. Mothers (Port Chalmers), Mesdames Miiler, L. J. Taylor, B. Levy, and A. W. Muir (Wellington), and Mrs. Parkin (Lower Hutt) — are left to mourn their loss.