HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1940, Page 18

HERE AND THERE

Lady Galway Commends Plunket.

In a brief speech at the Plunket Bail in the Exhibition Cabaret last night, Lady Galway commended the Plunket Society for the excellent work it was doing. In times like the present, she said, the public should be deeply aware of the national character of the Plunket work. In wartime its continuation became an imperative need for the sake of the future of the race, and the work took on a new significance. This was fully realised by the Government and the Minister of Defence, and for that reason the contestants had been permitted to use the soubriquets, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Merchant Service. Those interested in the society, and particularly those people who benefited from its services, should feel very deeply grateful to the four contestants who had raised so much money, and to all thoseg helpers who; had made the carnival such a success. Mrs. H. Jowett's announcement that £1700 had been raised as ;a result of the carnival was received with great 'enthusiasm by the guests. Mothers' Club. The annual meeting of the Wellington. South Free. Kindergarten Mothers' Club' was held recently in the kindergarten and. was" attended by over 50 members. The annual report and balance-sheet was presented and showed the club to be in a very strong financial • position. Mrs. Hutchinson, president of the United Mothers' Club, congratulated the club on its splendid progress and its strong position. The election of officers resulted as follows:—President, Mrs. Longhurst; vicepresident, Mrs. Smith; secretary, Mrs. W.neatly; committee,- Mesdames Perkins, Hatteri, ' Brown, Jackson, Grey, Jepson, Eoss, Ferguson, Marple, Rankin, Kerr. • Items were, given by the "Orpheus Sextet" and afternoon tea was served^ Among those present were Mrs. Hutchinson (president of the United Mothers' Club), Mrs. Dowsett (secretary of the Free Kindergarten Council), Mrs. Newton (member of the Free Kindergarten Council), several of the local committee, and Miss Wilson (principal of the Wellington Free Kindergarten).

Temperance Union Executive.

The following Dominion officers were elected at the convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, held at Invercargill:—President, Mrs. Hiett (Dunedin); vice-president, Mrs. Paterson (Pahiatua); correspondence secreary, Mrs. Mitchell (New Brighton); treasurer, Miss Lovell Smith (Christchurch); recording secretary, Miss C. E. Kirk, J.P. (Wellington); editor of the "White Ribbon," Mrs. Peryman (Johnsonville); .assistant editor, Miss Atkinson (Wellington); business manager, Mrs. Grigg (Karori).