ENGAGEMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 103, 3 May 1945, Page 10

ENGAGEMENTS

GILLARD—SMITH

The engagement is announced between Joan Anne, eldest daughter of Jlrs. I. Smith and the late Air. R. Smith, Wellington, and Charles John, twin son (returned from Pacific) of Mr. and Mrs. \V. T. Glllard, Papatoetoc, Auckland. LEAGUE OF MOTHERS Among League of Mothers' meetings held during-April were those of the Central, Wadestown, and Kelburn ! branches. Mrs. Basham was the speaker at the Central branch meeting, and she gave an entertaining description of her recent trip to America. She spoke of the blood transfusion service in Washington, where 9000 pints of blood a week were given for wounded servicemen, and of the women in Ottawa who had formed a Canadian Women's Club and, by the serving of luncheons and teas, had raised £7000 a' year for the war effort. 'Mrs. Basham also described a visit to the White House on D Day, when she was a guest at afternoon tea.

Mrs. Milward and her choir of 22 entertained the Wadestown branch wtih part songs. Mrs. Milward and Miss Dick sang solos, and Mrs. Andrews gave amusing recitations. Mrs. Turner presided in the absence of Mrs. Charles White. Mrs. Cocker was the speaker at the Kelburn meeting, and the members were also entertained by the choir. "OLD CHARWOMAN IDEA" Mr. Bevin, Minister of Labour, said at a luncheon of the Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union in London recently , that conditions of mental hospital workers were not conducive to making young girls take up the profession. "Public authorities are going to have to deal with an entirely different woman than existed in 1939 in the domestic side of our hospitals," he continued. "There will be a shortage for years to come. I want to see the old-slut method, the old charwoman idea, abolished."