WOMEN'S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 38, 13 January 1944, Page 3

WOMEN'S WORLD

(By "Nanette"l Mrs F. Clark, of Havolock North, who has been visiting Palmerston North, left last evening for Waitomo Caves. Mrs M. Hamilton, who has been staying with her sister, Mrs IX Black, of Fitzherbert Avenue, has returned to her home in iVellington. Mrs H. Scott and her daughter, Miss E. Scott, of Fitzherbert Avenue, have returned home after spending a holiday in Auckland, ltotorua, and Wairoa.

Five Wren dietitians ha/e been appointed to act in an advisory eapm ity in the preparation of food for all Canadian naval ships and establishments. All trained and experienced dietitians before entering the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service. The duty of these officers will be to see that the men get a balanced and varied diet. Two .ambulances, the gift of the Indian women in Fiji, were recently accepted at Buckingham Palace by the Queen. Dr. V. W. T. McGusty, who represented Fiji, in reply to Her Majesty's many questions, explained just how the money had beeyi raised. The Queen was especially "ratified at the form which the Indian women's contribution had taken, and was pleased to learn that the ambulances were to be sent overseas almost immediately. Traditionally more secluded than their Western sisters, Chinese women have been undergoing for six years an ordeal such as women anywhere have never known before. They work at the front, behind the Japanese lines, and in China's two-edged-war of "resistance and reconstruction." Some of the nurses are assigned to "hospitals on mule-back," hospitals which can be moved from one peasant hut to another; and others fight in the lines or as guerrillas. The main -job of most of China's women to-day is construction work. In one province a women's production unit has developed a silk centre. College girls teach farm women to read, and modern farming methods, and to-day more than 20,000 war orphans are being cared for by the women of China in the 45 orphanages scattered throughout Free China.