WOMAN'S WORLD

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24971, 14 August 1944, Page 4

WOMAN'S WORLD

\ INCREASED MEMBERSHIP PRESBYTERIAL 'ASSOCIATION An increase in membership was shown in the annual report presented at the t 42nd annual meeting of the Auckland Presbyterial Association. Although no e new branches had been established, the ] membership of 1096 showed an in--3 crease of 49 [on the previous vear. j The total amount contributed for mission schemes was £2248, which ii £l7l more than last year's sum. Tokaanu had been the Maori field for the year and the secretary reported that 12 large sacks, 12 sugar bags and three ■ , packages of used clothing were sent there, as well as £7. Donations of - money had also been sent to India. ' China and the Home Missionaries' s Christmas Gift Fund. 1 The distribution i of parcels and magazines to various I home mission stations was also res ported. , s The Busy Bee organisation now has a . membership of 354, there being four - new hives started. I V.A.'S VALUABLE WORK 1 The regard in which New Zealand V.A.'s are held in the Middle-East u j mentioned in a letter from Captain H. , E. Williams, late medical officer of the _ No. 1 General Hospital, to Mrs P. Melville, 20 Sander's Avenue, Taka- ' puna, whose daughter, Joy, is serving . as a Red Cross Voluntary Aid in the 5 Middle East. t He writes: "In common with many j others, Misa Melville was keen to get 5 an opportunity of going to Italy. These » girls are and have been all alone w- ? valuable and have helped very consider- , ably to give New Zealand hospitals ; over there the enviable reputation that : they now possess." I REPATRIATED TO BRITAIN " (Special Correspondent) LONDON, AW. 11 I Miss Margaret Peid, of Auckland, , has been repatriated to Britain in the 1 Swedish ship Drottingholm. She was string in France when the Germans - overr», v the countrv. She was interned 3 Inter ant. sen t to a camp at Vittel. At - present she ; s gtaying with friend* near 3 Liverpool. . | y ________ ! ENGAGEMENTS a Gell—Billing.—The enr-, ?me nt Is «• f nounced between Sergeant Lpnfe<| e u only of tbe late Mr M. GeU and Mri.« Gel},/J New York, U.S.A.. and Jovce Gramj,. daughter of Mr and Mrs T. H. Billing# i» Aroha. New Zealand. ta .anGriffiths —Collins. —The enffagement a , nounced between Garth Seymour. on R y jn d, \ 1 Mr and Mrs R. Griffiths. Haf' iS lli S and Elizabeth Sybil, second„daugbt«r oi I i and Mrs David Collins. Te Kopura, F ' St °Knlßht—Pengelljr.— The rneasemcnU 1 « ' nounced between Sydney ; of Mr and Mrs A. H. Ivniizht, Te KnlU, . Joy Merle, eldest daughter of Mr ana J.'Pengelly. Auckland. , j, jj. 1 Ryan—Brlnkman.—The engfigeinent l nounced between Signalman Ernest r Ryan, eldest son of Mr and Mrs J- • h . Cambridge, and JoanMayland, eMes { 1 ter of Mr and Mrs H. H. Bnnkman, aio • Eden, Auckland.