CUBA STREET GUILD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 267, 9 October 1940, Page 11

CUBA STREET GUILD.

TALK ON LONDON. At the monthly meeting of the Cuba Street Ladies’ Guild, yesterday, Mrs A. E. Fisher presided: On, behalf of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union Miss C. Jamieson extended an invitation for two representatives to attend a gathering next month. Mesdames A. E. Fisher and Johansen were selected to attend. Mrs Johansen read the report on the recent flower show, the sum of £49 8s 9d having been realised above the expenditure. Mrs Fisher commented that it was a very worthy effort and she congratulated the members. The secretary was asked • to ■write to Mrs J. Cheetliam thanking her for a donation to the flower show 7 and expressing sympathy in her illness. A letter of sympathy had been sent to Rev. A. Blakemore in the death of his mother. Mesdames F. Dorset and A. E. Fisher reported on the meeting to elect a committee for the Women’s War Service Auxiliary which they had attended as representatives of the guild. Mrs M. Fiebig sang two numbers, being accompanied by Mrs H. L! Fiebig. There w r as a splendid array of garments to be handed over to the United Guild, and it was decided to i make a combined gift from the ladies’ guild in addition. The tea hostesses were Mesdames Fletcher (convener), i Ridley, Trott and Spooner. Mrs Mori gan and Miss Dittmer had arranged ! the floral decorations. Miss Jamieson ! appealed for signatures to a petition of the New Zealand Alliance. Mrs Boniface read the prayer with which the National Council of Women opens its meetings. Mrs Fisher welcomed Mrs D. Col’is, of Kairanga, who gave an account of a 'visit to London just before the outbreak of the present way. She described her impressions of Buckingham Palace, No. 10 Downing Street, Kensington Palace and gardens, the Changing of the Guard, the Houses of Parliament, and Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral and other famous landmarks. The Marble Arch, which had cost £83,000, she explained, w 7 as originally designed as a gateway to Buckingham Palace, but by a miscalculation was made too narrow for the State coach to pass through and so was removed to Hyde Park. At the Zoo Mrs Collis saw 7 the giant panda which was attracting much attention. She w’ont on to describe the interesting sights to be seen near the Thames and the magnificent tapestries and portraits at Hampton Court. She had visited Croydon aerodrome and seen planes arriving from all over Europe and departing to wideiy-scattered destinations. The Bank of England and Petticoat Lane were also described. An interesting excursion had been made to Windsor. Famous shops were visited and Hyde Park, with its Sunday orators. Mrs Collis had seen the King and Queen welcomed back on their return from America. She had left on a tour of Ireland and other parts of the British Isles, returning to find the face of London greatly changed by war conditions. Airs Twiggc thanked Airs Collis for her talk, Mrs Fiebig for her items and the tea hostesses