HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 121, 24 May 1941, Page 12

HERE AND THERE

Knitters Urgently Needed.

Knitters who will make balaclaves and scarves are urgently needed by the Metropolitan Patriotic Committee. There is an ample supply of khaki wool available at the committee rooms, 95 Wakefield Street, and volunteers who answer the call may obtain it on Tuesdays and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All are asked to help. Dickens Fellowship. The president, Mr. W. D. Charlton, who presided at a recent meeting of the Dickens Fellowship, gave an interesting summary of the concluding chapters of "Great Expectations." Readings were given by Mrs. Lawrence and Mr. Metzenthein, and a scene, "Mr. and Mrs. Varden at Home," was enacted by Mesdames Farrant and Jesson and Mr. Page. Several songs were sung by Mrs. Gilchrist. The chairman announced that the next meeting would be the closing one for the year, and new members will be welcomed for the new year starting in July. Mrs. Cruttenden announced that the Dickens Harmony group had sent parcels to the Seamen's Mission. The Late Lady Kinsey. The late Lady Kinsey, whose death at the age of 92 years occurred in Christchurch recently, was the wife of the late Sir Joseph Kinsey. In 1880, shortly after their marriage she and her husband arrived in New Zealand from England. All their married life was spent in Christchurch. Lady Kinsey shared with her husband a keen interest in old furniture, miniatures, and pictures, which made the collection at their home outstanding. Sir Joseph Kinsey died in 1936 and she is survived by one daughter. Victoria League Activities. The Victoria League celebrated Empire Day by a ceremony at Queen Victoria's statue, Kent Terrace, at noon today. A matinee was held later in the lecture hall of the new Public Library. On Monday a meeting will be held in the league rooms at 10.30 a.m. for members interested in arrangements for "shop day," which will be held in the same rooms on Friday, May 30. A morning tea will be held in the league rooms on Tuesday next at 10.45, for which thei-e will be a charge of Is. Plunket Competition Progress. The results to date of the various sections of the Wellington Plunket Society's' beautiful baby photographic competition are as follows:—Section A, 15, 6, and 9 (first, second, and third respectively); B, 262, 257, and 266; C, 27, 1, and 40; D, 258. 279, and 355; E, 4, 1, and 36; F, 251, 281, and 239; G, 2, 10, and 9; H, 255, 257, and 254. The photographs are displayed in the lounge of the D.I.C. Two Talks at Waterloo V.M.C.A. Bowls of bronze chrysanthemums decorated the Waterloo V.M.C.A. recently for the ladies' auxiliary social "bring and buy." The guest speaker was Mrs. D. Basham, who gave two talks, one on Norway and the beauties of the fiords, and the other on modern labour-saving appliances in American homes. Tea was served and the "bring-and-buy" stall did good business.