HUTT VALLEY NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1939, Page 18

HUTT VALLEY NEWS

INCREASE IN EFFICIENCY

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

A record number bf certificates, 90 per cent, of which were gained with honours in examinations conducted throughout the year by' the Lower Hutt branch of the Red .Cross .Society, were presented last night at a social evening arranged in the Eva Draper studio, Lower Hutt, by ;the social committee of the branch.

"We are proud of the development lof tlie society's work in the " Valley, 1 and especially of the newly-established V.A.D. section," said Captain M. S. Galloway, general secretary. of the Wellington Red Cross, in addressing the gathering. The first Red Cross committee to be established in the" district was set up under the presidency of Mrs. John Mitchell, on the eve of the depression, he said, and its foremost job, and one that it had carried out splendidly, had been that of relief. Over the past year, however, the V.A.D. movement had been coming into its own, both in the district and throughout the country,, and was ! largely stimulated by the crisis. There was now- a force of 100,000 women ready to serve, whenever and wherever they were needed. Dr. Alexander Gillies, Dominion | chairman, and Wellington president !of the society, endorsed Captain Gali loway's remarks concerning the real [ progress that had been made in the I training of personnel in Lower "Hutt. j "In season and out of season- the soj ciety should be busy training," he | said, "and we think a great deal of | those people who are with us work- ! ing at all times, in time of peace and jin time of crisis—those are the people ! most useful to any organisation. He j was sure that with the training they j had received those present would ; make themselves useful not only in , this emergency but at all times. i He went on to speak of the gratii tude of the men who had gone over- ' seas in the Gi'eat War for tlie comforts I and kindnesses they had received from Red Cross committees and members "The things that were done in the last , war have probably been forgotten" by those who did them," he remarked, ; "but not by the recipients." He then presented the medallions and certificates to the members of i several Lower Hutt classes, and also to those from Taita and Belmont. Mrs. John Mitchell, president of the i Lower Hutt branch, was the recipient of a charming -floral emblem.'" The evening's programme concluded with dancing and the serving of piping hot coffee and a savoury supper provided by the social committee, Mesdaines Harding, Wallace, and Miss R. Kersley, under the convenership of the president, Mrs. D. Sorensen. The Elusive Vitamin. Vitamins and the different classes of food in which each type is found was the; subject of an interesting address given by Mrs. D. ,W. Adamson al the October meeting of the Lower Hutt branch of the W.DiF.U. on Tuesday. Mrs. Adamson was cordially thanked for her address and presented with a iioral spray. The president. Mrs. P. A. Gillingham, was in the chair for the discussion of business, and was .assisted by the acting secretary, Mrs. S.'Odlin. ' The charming floral decorations and the delicious home-made afternoon tea were supplied by the hostesses for the afternoon, - Mesdames Camden Cooke, F. Yerex, C. Dudding, and R".' Doig." | Garden Day Planned.*' -: ~>.\X^X^^\ At a recent.' meeting of th;e "ketone ' Free. Kindergarten Committee'". it was-1 decided-that the special' furiction.,wfiich ! was planned to take,place -last week, when the grounds of '"Rangiaho," Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Gibbons's home at Lower Hutt, were opened to tbe public, and which had to be postponed because of rain, should 'be held next Saturday afternoon at 5.30. Mrs. J. A.. Doctor, Dominion president of the Free Kindergarten Association, and members of the Petone committee, will be present to receive visitors to „ the garden, and will'entertain them later at tea. It was also- arranged to> stage a display of authentic period -frocks covering every .decade of the last century as one of the features of, the function, and to incorporate in- this a number of songs and dances appropriate to the period.