TOPICS FOR WOMEN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 6

TOPICS FOR WOMEN

ENGAGEMENT

LIGHTFOOT—LUXON. The engagement is announced of. Mona, second eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Luxon, Xapier,-to Raymond WUliam. R.N.Z.A.F., eldest .son of Mr. and Mrs. It. Lightfoot, Brooklyn, Wellington.

WAR WORK

WOMEN'S SECTION R.S.A.

'Many activities were outlined and plans for the future discussed at the recent well-attended meeting of the Women's Section, Wellington Returned Services Association, presided over by Mrs. C. H. Weston. Mrs. R. V. GcfcJdard was welcomed to the committee as representative of the R.A.F. (N.Z.) It was reported that the visiting of Air Force wives would be undertaken by the Air Force Relations Committee. The women's war committee. Order of St. John, with Lady Elliott as president, had arranged a delightful gathering for P.O.W. relatives. Her Excellency had been present and had since expressed a wish to be informed of future gatherings. . x ■■ A proposal was made to invite Lady Lake to accept the office of patroness, lately held by Mrs. W. E. Parry (wife of Commodore Parry b>Tlie making of 80,000 roses for Rose 'Day was said to be gathering momentum. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays parties were working all day at the rooms. The Rose Day workers (Mrs. H. H. Anslow), the pupils of Marsden and of Queen Margaret's, the Townswomen's Guilds of Brooklyn and Rongotai, Mrs. Downes's Red Cross Committee, and Mrs. Oswald Mazengarb's weekly sewing groups were holding working parties to make roses. It was hoped that on November 6, Rose' Day, these helpers' would also assist in selling them to make a fund worthy of helping returned men incapacitated by the war. Mrs. E. Puttick reported that she was arranging, through the members of tbe W. 0.5.0. Club, to visit all next-of-kin taken from the later casualty listsr Mrs. G. Millar reported many calls from soldiers' wives who had come for advice and assistance. She had visited the returned soldiers at the Rotorua Hospital, where there were many Maori girls in training, proving excellent nurses. Mrs. Ropata spoke of the work done for the men of the Maori Battalions, and for their wives. She said she had been thrilled to hear Mrs. Millar soeak so eulogistically of the work of the Maori girls as nurses. Mrs. J. I. Goldsmith, with her subcommittee, had visited all wives of soldiers at the maternity hospitals and later at their homes, giving valued The branch reports from the Hutt Valley (Mrs A. J. Hyder), Miramar (Mrs. J. W. Appleyard), Brooklyn (Mrs. Wylde), Eastbourne (Mrs. V. G Jervis), and Seatoun (Mrs. G. A. Hayden) all showed a growing interest in the women's section. The committees were finding a real need for the work of this organisation. At the conclusion of the meeting! Mrs. Peter Fraser offered to hold a meeting at her home to form a committee at Northland and invited Mrs. Weston to speak on the aims and objects of the Women's Section xon that occasion. The president reported that the auxiliaries of Miramar and Eastbourne had affiliated with the Wellington branch. The chain of auxiliaries throughout the suburbs was now almost complete. The work was becoming decentralised.

OBITUARY

MRS. HANORA McCAULEY

Another, if not the last, of the few remaining links in the chain of early pioneers of Pelorus Sound was removed by tlie death, on July 20, of Mrs. Hanora McCauley. Born in Elymouth, England, in 1868, the late Mrs. McCauley came to New Zealand in the steamer Kaikoura in 1886. She married Mr. Benjamin Patrick McCauley three years later, and settled in Bulwer, Pelorus Sound, where she lived until the time of her death. bMrs. McCauley's wonderfully cheerful and lovable nature made her a vast number of friends, and the hospitality of her home is well known. Her husband died 29 years ago. She is survived by a family of four daughters and five sons.