NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10063, 30 August 1918, Page 8

NOTES FOR WOMEN

ENDOWMENT OP MOTHERHOOD. An interesting scheme for the endowment of motherhood was outlined by Miss Maude Roydcn at a meeting of the National Birth Bate Comfljission, held under the auspices of the National Council of Public Morals, states a London exchange. The idea, she said, was that the separation allowance at present paid to wives of members of His Majesty's Forces for themselves and their children should bo extended after the war to all mothers of young children, and made definitely with the right that it should not be administered through the Poor Law or any tbaritahlo .society, but should be regarded as recognised by the State ns a great service to the State. A woman should be paid as a mother, and the payment should begin at a definite period before the birth of tho child and continue until the child wont to school. A weekly allowance to mothers, stopping when the children went to school, but continuing the children’s allowance until they left school, would cost .€250,000,-' 000 a year on the'present birth rate. NEW ZEALANDERS LN ENGLAND. Mr and Mrs Fred Clutsam are at Dean's Hurst, Teddington. Dr E. O. Eowley . is'now with a New Zealand Field Ambulance. Lieutenant F. M. Spencer, N.Z.M.C., of Wanganui, is at Torquay. Sub-Lieutenant Tenner, Bi.N.R., of Christchurch, was in London last week. Captain R. M. Murie. lt.il, of Invercargill, has been over from the front. Captain F. Guthrie, N.Z.M.C., of Christchurch, was in London last week. General Sir Andrew Bussell is over from France, recuperating after an accident. ' Mrs D. B. Blair, wife of LieutenantColonel Blair, is staying at Langham street, W. Mrs A. H. Colvile and Mrs J. H. Leat, of Auckland, are at Lymington. Hants. Mrs P. Dufaur and Mrs T. B. Duffy, of Auckland, are at Earl’s Court square. Twenty-eight young flying men have arrived from New Zealand to join the B.A.F. Mr William Wade, junior officer, H.M.S. Sunn Hill, of Waikato, has been in London on leave. Lieutenant G. B. Harle, of Dunedin, was in town recently from' Grantham, where ho, is stationed with the R.A.F. Major R. W. Hannah, R.F.A., of Wellington, and Major Duff, of Hawke’s Bay, have recently won the D.S.O. . Lieutenant A. A. Browne. R.A.F., and formerly of a Wellington Battalion, is an instructor at No. X School of Aeronautics, Beading. Miss Nancy Robertson, of Auckland, who Is with Q.A.XjM.N.S.B. at a casu'alty clearing station in l France, was in London recently. A picture of Nurse Cavell being led to execution has been painted by Mr A. Pearse for Mr Cohen, of Dunedin, who is presenting it to the.' Dunedin General ■ Hospital. Lieutenant Max Juries, of Wellington, who was serving with, the London Regiment, and was captured' by the Germans, has been released into Holland after nearly two years’, captivity. Representations’ were made for his release by the -N .Z.W.C.A. —“BritishAustralasian, J ’ July 4th.

Mr and Mrs Eothsohild are on a. visit to the South Island. '

Lieutenant-Colonel Eaibctt gave an interesting account of women’s war work abroad to a large assembly of ladies in the Queen Victoria Club, Melbourne, recently. It cannot bo denied that women in Australia are envious of the chances women have ii other parts of the Umpire of doing real tangible and indispensable war work, and Colonel Eabett’s account of things did nothing to modify that feeling (says the “Australasian ). A warship built entirely by women (though designed by men) is to be launched this year. Besides the groat munition armies and the land army, there are thousands of feminine hands employed in-military stores, and all feel that they, are of ; real assistance ■to their country. The only difference in the uniform of the privates and the officers is that the khaki blouse and tie of the latter are of .silk instead of cotton, and they wear a metal rose and fleur-de-lys badge on their shoulders. All the women wear identification discs. Lieutenant-Colonel E-abett is one of the promoters of the "King’s Men,” a movement which promises to be a powerful patriotic influence. In spite of certain disquieting rumours to the contrary—threats of the hobble skirt and such-like horrors—it is now certain that styles of :the very simplest possible description will lead the way all through the spring and sum. mer (says an Auckland writer). E-eal-ising the seriousness of life at the present time, women for the most part allow their natural common-sense and Igood taste to influence their choice, and as a result the fashions which make the most successful appeal are those that owe their chief charm to ahsolute simplicity.