HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1944, Page 8

HERE AND THERE

In Charge of Bari Club. \ Advice has been rceeived that Sergeant Mrs. Kenneth Webb, N.Z. W.A.A.C., formerly Miss Joyce Gilmour, of Invercargill, has been promoted to second-lieutenant. From Cairo, where she has been working in the No. 1 New Zealand Forces Club since October, 1941, Subaltern Webb has been transferred to Bari, and is now in charge of the No. 2 New Zealand Forces Club there. A.T.C. Dance. The Wellington Air Training Corps held another of its monthly dances at the. cferitre. Wakefield Street, on Saturday, night, when there was an attendance of close on 300. These dances have become increasingly popular among'the members and their friends, and the, participants always express keen-appreciation of the music, the floor, the supper, and the general arrangements. . The next dance takes place early in September. Silverstream Kindergarten. The second meeting of the Silverstream Kindergarten Association was held at' St;' Margaret's Church schoolroom on Monday. Ther,e was a large attendance ■■■and a very successful "bring and buy" was held. Afternoon tea. was provided by the committee, and Mrs. Stockbridge was hostess, assisted, by Mrs. Ritzma. Final arrangements were made for a stall to be held opposite.the Silverstream School on Saturday, August 26. As the services of a teacher have been acquired, it Is hoped to start'the kindergarten at the beginning;.of next term. Kelburn Plunket Nurse. , Members of the Kelburn committee of the Plunket Society and Plunket mothers of the district, "entertained Miss Irene McClurg, Plunket nurse, at tea in the Presbyterian - Church Hall recently. Miss • ' McClurg will shortly begin a six months' refresher course, when She will be absent from her'district; duties. Mrs. R. G. Chatfield, retiring president of the district committee, was the hostess. Reference was made. to Miss McClurg's conscientious service and personal popularity during the ten years she has been the nurse for the district, and good wishes were extended to her. Listens to P.6.W. Broadcasts.

For more than two years Mrs. H. Gush, of New Plymouth, has been listening to broadcasts by prisoners of war from Germany, Italy, and Japan. So far she has written more' than 5000 letters to prisoners' relatives. Mrs. Gush takes down every name and message-tha^ is broadcast^ and keeps all casualty lists, published in the newspapers to find the name and address of the hext-of-kin. Her letters telling of broadcasts have-gone to all parts of New Zealand, and as far abroad as Australia, England, and Tonga. In spite of letters already dispatched, she has hundreds more to send. Mrs. Gush has overcome the obstacle of the cost of stamps, paper, and envelopes for this task by giving lup going to picture theatres.,