WOMAN'S WORLD

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24793, 17 January 1944, Page 5

WOMAN'S WORLD

PROMINENT CRICKETER WEDDING AT MOUNT ALBERT The Mount Albert Presbyterian Church was beautifully decorated with dahlias and blue hydrangeas for the wedding on Saturday afternoon of Miss Iris Dove, second daughter of Mrs. E. R. Dove, New North Road, Mount Albert, to Sergeant Richard M;tlcolin (Dick) R own tree (on furlough from the Pacific), elder son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Rowntree, Allendale Road, Mount Albert. The" bride is an Auckland and New Zealand table tennis champion and the bridegroom a Grafton and Army cricketer. The bride, who was given away by her cousin, Mr. W. Ansin, of Palmerston North, wore a long-waisted gown of magnolia satin, with a heart-shaped neckline, full skirt and flowing train. Her tulle veil was held in place by a head-dress of natural water lily buds to match her moon-shaped bouquet of the same flowers. Her younger sister, Miss Olive Dove, who was bridesmaid, wore an American picture frock of shell-pink organdie, her head-dress and bouquet being of pink carnations. The best man was Mr. Walter Hammond. The reception was held at the home of the bride's mother. DANGEROUS WAR WORK SAFETY MEASURES Five young women in New York who work daily on dangerous war jobs recently told of their work and how they keep themselves from injurv through safety rules. Mrs. Corrine A. Sexton, who works at the E. R. Squibbs and Sons laboratory eight hours a day with typhus vaccine, is the mother of three children and wife of an Army man who has just returned from ten months in the South Pacific. She said;— "None of us has contracted typhus yet, although we work with it all day. We wear long sleeves, masks and goggles and rubber gloves, and try to take every care. I've had six vaccine shots as a precaution." Janet Beach works in below-freezing temperatures in a laboratory helping to process serum albumen, which does much the same work as blood plasma. She says she and her fellow-workers must be on 'constant guard jagainst pneumonia, adding: "We wear heavy jackets, slacks, wool socks and shoes and heavy boots over them." Roberta Garrison is in charge of rigging parachutes. She herself is a veteran of 51 parachute jumps. Antoinette Rawley works with methvl bromide gas on a project to keep lice out of this war. She, must guard against escaping gas and inhaling ft while filling storage tubes. Mary Murtha is on a job that requires extreme care —she packs morphine syrettes. The drug is dangerous to the eyes and can cause a rash on the skin. ENGAGEMENTS Campbell—Mills.—The engagement is announced between George Harold, youngest son of Mr. and the late Mrs. J. T. Campbell, Mount Eden, Auckland, and Joyce Grace, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. Mills, of Mount Roskill, Auckland. Jones—Gurran.—The engagement is announced between Malcolm, younger son of Mrs. and the late Mr. I?. S. Jones, of Matakana, and Patricia, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C'urran, of Heme Bay. Snyder—Buffett.—jfr. and Mrs. James Buffett, New Lynn, announce the engagement of their eldest daughter, Avery, to StaffSergeant Raphael G. Snyder, second son of Mrs. Olive Snyder, U.S.A.