GIFT OF LAMB OUT OF SINGAPORE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 39, 16 February 1942, Page 8

GIFT OF LAMB

OUT OF SINGAPORE

WELLINGTON WOMEN SAFE

/Cabled advice was received at Wellington today by -Miss Ethel Law, national secretary of the New Zealand. Y.W.C.A., .that Miss Leila Bridgmian and Mrs. S. F: Owen are safely <Tut of Singapore. Miss. Bridgman, who was for many years secretary of the Y.W.C.A. in Wellington, was transferred last year to Singapore to the post of general secretary of the Y.W.C-A. Lately her time had been very much occupied with hospital work among women and children evacuated from Malaya, in the north. Mrs.'Owen, another Wellingtonian, has been helping Miss Bridgman since Christmas in this work. As Miss Audrey Mcßae she had been an energetic member of the Y.W.C.A. staff, taking up the work again after her evacuation from her home, forty miles from Kuala Lumpur. -

Mr. .and Mrs. J. H. Miles, of Wellington, recently had word that Mr. Michael Miles' (formerly of Wellington), who was with the, 8.8.C. at Singapore, had arrived with his wife at Bata"viar. ' Mr. and Mrs. Michael Miles 'were married : very recently;, in Singapore. Mrs. Miles was formerly Miss Joan Shifwell, of England.

TWO CLUBS BENEFIT

HOMELY ATMOSPHERE AT

A.N.A.

The Army, Navy, and Air Force Club is a particularly cheerful place these days with its sunlit lounges, freshly-painted fittings, and gay floral arrangements. The men who visit the rooms are free to do as they like, and while some prefer to play billiards or table tennis or darts, others like to stay in either one of the two big loungef and read the many magazines provided, write* their letters, or listen to the wire'sless or electric gramophone which they are free to play ., at will. The cafeteria committee provides good meals, and ■. recently served lamb and green peas from donations sent in by good friends of the club. Lamb and

cheese were sent by Messrs. J. and C. Neville (Marton), The • Coyte-Patea Freezing Co., and Mr. W. A. Illingworth (Patea); vegetables by Mrs. H. M. Wilson (Hastings), Miss Mexted (Porirua), and the Lower Hutt,' Paraparaumu, Hataitai, and Khandallah sections of the W.W.S.A.; and cakes by the Manakau Patriotic Society, Manakau Younger Set, and the Public Service Women's Tennis Club, Army Department. DINNER DANCE POPULAR. Dancing at the National Club on Saturday between the hours of 5 and 8 has become almost a habit with numbers of servicemen, and the pleasant lounge is always filled with men. Dinner goes' on at the same time. so.that those waiting for a place in the dining-room are able to fill in the tinie quite happily. Last weekend lamb sent from Marton was on the menu, and the vegetables included cabbage, contributed by . the Lower Hutt branch of the W.W.S.A. On Saturday the group of National Union girls on duty was under the charge of Mrs. Roger Roberts and Miss Josephine Russell, and yesterday Mrs. H. E. Avery. convened a group comprising Mesdames A. E. Morley, J. H. Russell, H. >E. Wray, H. Martin, and Misses L. Avery, J. Russell, and J Martin. : : FILMS SCREENED AT TOC H. , Films supplied by the Kodak Company were screened yesterday at the Toe H Servicemen's Club and were enjoyed by a big audience of soldiers and their hostesses. Mr. Casey provided the equipment, and the films were thrown on a screen at the back of the stage in the main hall. Community singing was held, and later supper was served by voluntary Toe H helpers. SOLDIERS' SUNDAY TEA. Mrs. H. Booker, president, and the members of the ladies' auxiliary of the boys' division of the Wellington V.M.C.A. were the hostesses at the soldiers' Sunday tea at the V.M.C.A. Mr. George Briggs, who was recently invalided home from V.M.C.A. service in Egypt and England, was chairman, and Mr. H. E. Brooker was the song leader. After being served with an excellent meal the men were entertained with a variety programme. Those who contributed. Hems were Messrs. Buddy Langman (ventriloquist and comedian), "Cig" Miles (comedian) "Happy Jack" Christie (songs with steel guitar), and John Burt (baritone solos). Mr. Bob Henry was the pianist:

Captain T. Gerald Harpur, who has been medical officer to a garrison' in the Pacific area for the last 14 months, Mrs. Harpur, and Sub-Lieutenant IL P, Harpur, R.N.Z;N.V.R., are /visiting Christchurch, and are staying at Warwick House. Captain Harpur, whose home is in Mar'ton, arrived in ..New Zealand recently. . ■