NEWS FROM BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1941, Page 10

NEWS FROM BRITAIN

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS

j (By Air Mail—from "The Post's" Representative.) I LONDON. December 12. | Miss May M. Manoy (Nelson) is ! nursing at Charing Cross Hospital, where she expects to remain for the duration of the war. Previously she had been nursing in an evacuated hospital in Kent. At the beginning of the year Miss Manoy accompanied Mrs. P. Saville (formerly Miss Rona Richardson, Auckland) and her baby to France as far as Marseilles, where she left them in a ship bound for the Sudan. She found it an intensely interesting journey—very different from one taken during peacetime. Prior to the war, Miss Manoy was a Karitane nurse.

Mrs. H. L. St. George Webster (Palmerston North) is an A.R.P. warden at Cheltenham. She has also cooked for "multitudes'' of evacuees. As a former president of the Tiritea Women's Institute, Mrs Webster feels that tlie New Zealand Institute would be proud of the great work their sisters are doing in Britain. They helped in an amazing fashion with the food problem, .providing sugarless recipes.

Miss A. E. Good (Wanganui) is a transport driver in the A.T.S. She drives a three-ton lorry.

Miss Muriel Ollivier (Christchurch), as a member of the Civil Nursing Reserve, is attached to a base hospital, where for three months she worked in the Resuscitation Ward She is now nursing in one of the new huts which holds 43 beds and where women's surgical cases are treated. Some of them are air-raid casualties from London." Most of the nurses are billeted out. Miss Ollivier lives on the top of a ridge opposite the hospital (also on a ridge), and altogether has about four miles down and uphill to walk each day.

Mrs. Park, wife of LieutenantColonel R. S. Park, Military Liaison Officer, whose headquarters are at New Zealand House, was wounded in a Nazi air raid on London. She sustained a severe arm injury, but is now convalescent. She is at present in North Wales.

The marriage look place recently in St. Mary's Cathedral. Glasgow, of Miss Valeric Charlton-Canavan. of Auckland, and Mr. John Farquhar.

Mr. Trevor Fisher (Wellington) is still working with the Postal Censorship in London, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Fisher, have recently joined the same department. In addition, Mr. Fisher has also extra duties as fire fighter and roof spotter. He has seen all the main raids from the first attack on London.

Miss Elizabeth Tonge (Wellington) is dress designing.

Mrs. K. M. O'Reilly (Papatoetoe) is attached to the N.Z.Y.M.C.A. Her husband is serving with an Auckland Infantry Battalion in the N.Z.E.F.

FOR THE TROOPS

BROOKLYN'S READY RESPONSE

The Brooklyn Patriotic Committee has received over 30 letters of appreciation from soldiers in the Middle East for Christmas gift parcels. Already, since Christmas, 100 parcels have been packed and sent to headquarters in response to an appeal made by the Wellington Metropolitan Patriotic Committee. The parcels, which are of uniform size and packed in cardboard cartons, contain two khaki handkerchiefs, one packet safety razor blades, one tin coffee and milk, one tin barley sugar, one packet boracic powder, one cake soap in tin, one writing pad and envelopes, one pound cake in a tin. The cake i;: baked in a special enamel tin which will be useful to the men when the cakes are removed.

Mrs. J. I. Goldsmith, who presided at the Brooklyn committee's first meeting since Chi'istmas, thanked Mr. Tills for allowing his shop to be used as a receiving depot. It was decided to hold a "bring-and-buy" day each Friday for the parcels fund. Mrs. H. Nicholson was elected to fill the position of secretary on Miss Evelyn Goldsmith's resignation, and Mrs. P. MacLachlan was elected treasurer. Mrs. Gardiner reported that 453 pairs of mittens, 67 scarves, 66 balaclavas, and 8 pairs of gloves had been forwarded to headquarters.

Before the meeting closed Mrs. Goldsmith was thanked for her generous hospitality in constantly making her home available to the committee, and was wished a pleasant journey to Australia and a safe return.