WOMEN’S NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 84, 10 March 1925, Page 2

WOMEN’S NOTES.

Our Foxton correspondent writes: The death took place at Matamata on Saturday morning- of Mrs Katerina Yanko, relict of tho late Mr J. Yanko, both of whom for some years were resident at Himatangi. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon. Rev. Frank McDonald, Presbyterian minister, conducted the services at tho church and at the graveside. A very gonerous gift has boon given to the New Zealand Trained Nurses’ Association by Mr I. Johnston, 16 Matai road, Hataiti. This gift is a cottage standing in four acres of land, in Opua bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, about 14 milo3 from Picton. This ho has handed over to tho Nurses’ Association for all time, to be used by them as a “Rest Home.” The council has, therefore, decided to try and make it as comfortable and attractive as possible, so that it may prove a great joy and benefit to many tired nurses. It is amongst one of the first gifts of the kind given to the nursing world. “We could place at least 1500 girls in domestic servioe in New Zealand every year,” stated a departmental official to a Now Zealand Times representative. “Last year alone we had 1200 written applications for them, not to mention those made over tho telephone and by personal callers. Wliat is wanted out here is tho general servant, and we can place all who come out without difficulty. The girls on the whole have proved most satsifoctory, and we have very few complaints. Of course tho mistresses have to bo considered, and sometimes a girl who does not suit one mistress would suit another. We endeavour to place the girls in congenial positions, and everybody seems satisfied.” Another New Zealand authoress is appearing on tho literary horizon—Jane Mandor and tho late Katherine Mansfield are tho most notable so far—Mrs D. Drummond, of Dannevirko, who under the pen name of Dulce Carman, has had her first book, “The Broad fitairway,” published by a London firm. JSo w Zealand, although rich in romance, has not achieved a voluminous literary output and it is u I distinct achievement for a Dannevirke lady (says the News) to have had a novel published in London. Mrs Drummond has literary skill and a dramatic sense that has enabled her to build up a book of considerable human interest, with here and there a pleasing touch of descriptive power. She weaves into her story | scenes that are pleasantly familiar, with j here and there a touch of adventure, -including one scene of reckless riding, in j which spirited horse hooves thud almost to tiie brink of disaster. She has caught the spirit of Ethel Turner and other Australian writers who have charmingly depicted child-life in the open spaces. “A HAPPY COUNTRY.” MISS I. S. CAVELL’S IMPRESSIONS. Miss I. S. Cavell, of London, a cousin of tho martyred Nurse Edith Cavell, was a visitor to Palmerston North yesterday. Chatting to a reporter. Miss Cavell said that she had made tho trip from England for health reasons and had spent a very pleasant holiday visiting the various places of inteerst in New Zealand Miss Cavell said sho viewed with conoern the apathy, to her mind, with which the people regarded tho present epidemic. “It has worried me considerably,”-- sho said, “but people here don’t seem to bo - over anxious. I was thinking of writing j to tho papers suggesting increased atten- ; tion to cleanliness,” she continued. “In one place I was staying at they gavo me a glass of water to drink and I had drunk about half of it before I notioed how muddy it was, but the landlady ex- j plained that the ‘last shower must have washed the dust intp the tank.’ I think,” j Miss Cavell continued,’ (‘that in the inter- j est of hoalth everyone should boil both water and milk before using it.” “The New Zealand people,” she said, “seem to be so happy and prosperous that they don’t 1 " appear to worry very much. Look at tho dirty stations one sees right through the country.” Miss Cavell added that the New Zealand railways were, in her opinion, most uncomfortable. “I must say, however, that your hotels although fairly dear, supply excellent food and tho peoplo of New Zealand are wonderfully kind, I have had a most enjoyable holiday.” Miss Cavell left for Auckland lost night.