PENWOMEN'S CLUB

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23157, 1 October 1938, Page 27

PENWOMEN'S CLUB

WEEKLY MEETING TALK ON FOOTBALL TOUR NEW ZEALAND SCHOOLBOYS Impressions gained during a tour in Australia with a football team of 21 New Zealand secondary school boys were given by Mr. Gerald Lee in an address at the weekly meeting of the Penwomen's Club yesterday afternoon. The president, Mrs. Nello Porter, presided. The international and ' educational value of the tour was pointed out by Mr. Lee, who said the boys had formed many useful friendships and gained many vivid impressions of life in a sister Dominion. Mr. Lee said the tour had been made financially possible by the co-operation of the women of the various towns visited. He appealed to New Zealand women to reciprocate when boys came from other lands by assisting in billeting them. So far as football was ccyicerned, Mr. Lee said, games were played in Sydney, Melbourne. Cessnock and Newcastle. He considered the game as played by the Australian boys was more spectacular, but not so scientific as the New Zealander's game. Prior to the address Mrs. Porter in troduced the guests of honour, who included Mrs. T. H. Lowry, of Hawke's Bay, president of the Red Cross Society in Now Zealand, who returned yesterday from London, where she attended the conference of the League of Red Cross Societies. Mrs. Lowry gave a brief resume of the work being done by the New Zealand branch of the Red Cross in China, where she said there were several New Zealand doctors giving excellent service. She appealed to the younger generation to take up the work of the Red Cross, which, she said, was not all necessarily service in war zones, but included service to humanity in general and in such national disasters as earthquakes and epidemics.' Accompanying Sirs. Lowry were Mr. Ira J. Bridger, director-general of the Red Cross in New Zealand and Mr. A. A. Harker, secretary for the Auckland centre. Another guest was Mrs. R. T. Tosswill, of Christchurch, who is an expresident of the Canterbury Women's Club.