WAR SERVICE AUXILIARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 280, 25 October 1940, Page 7

WAR SERVICE AUXILIARY.

The Government nominations for three members to sit on the Palmerston North District Committee of the AVomen’s AVar -Service Auxiliary were announced last evening at the first meeting of the committee. They are Mrs R. K. Brown, Mrs S. G- Northey, and Miss Mavis Cooksley, who have been appointed by the Minister" of National Service (Hon. R. Semple), and a welcome was extended to them. The other nine members, elected at a meeting of delegates from women’s organisations, are: Mesdames C. Freyberg, W. F. Field, S. J. Parkes, L. Bale. J. AValker, A. A. Langley, Misses C. AA’arburton and M. Grant, who were present last evening, and Mrs J. PI. AVhyte, from whom there was an apology for absence. The convener (Miss Grant) read a letter to the meeting from Mrs P. Fraser, chairman of the central executive, and explained that the purpose of the meeting was first to elect its officers. She called for nominations for a chairman, and Miss G. AA r arburton was unanimously elected. Mrs J. AValker was. elected vicechairman ; Miss Grant, secretary; and Miss Mavis Cooksley, assistant secretary. Arrangements were discussed for office accommodation. It was resolved -to circularise organisations as directed from the central executive and to call a general meeting. It was stressed that registrations would be individual, the necessary cards having come to hand.