NEW ZEALAND FORCES’ CLUB

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24525, 6 February 1941, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND FORCES’ CLUB

FAREWELL TO MRS DUNLOP Mrs W. F. Dunlop, who has been a prominent worker in the important canteen work of the New Zealand Forces Club, is leaving for Australia (says our London correspondent). To say good-bye and mark their appreciation of her work, the other helpers held a morning tea party on her birthday. , ' Mrs E. S. Harston made the presentation of a silver cigarette case “ From the voluntary workers of the New Zealand Forces Club, 1940,’ and referred to Mrs Dunlop’s great services to the club. Miss Mercia MartinWalsh presented the guest of honour with a spray of red carnations. Among those present were Miss Jean McKenzie, Miss Tilsa Plummer, Mrs J. Burke, Miss M. Allen, Mrs MartinWalsh, Miss Robinson, Mrs Graham, Miss C. M. Gow, Mrs Burnege, Miss Colquhoun, Mrs Sibley, Mrs Adler and Miss V. M. Bull. Others associated with the running of the canteen, but not able to be present, included Mrs Freyberg, Mrs Penrose Fitzgerald, Mrs Harris, Mrs Molesworth, Mrs Hall, Mrs Maltzahn, Mrs Bames, Mrs Strang, Mrs Wright, Mrs Vanderpump, Mrs Maurice, Mrs and Miss Prior, the Misses B. and N. Saunders, Misses Fogarty, Hunt, Molesworth, L. McPhee. C. A. Meadmore, K. L. Fursdon, Wynyard, Tod, D. Armour, McPherson and J. K Kavanagh. The reception, inquiry and information department of the club consists of Mrs Freyberg and Mrs Harston (supervisors). Miss M, Allen, Miss B. E. Holdsworth. Mrs Scobie Mackenzie, Mrs Abraham and Mr Penrose Fitzgerald. Arrangements were made for a Christmas dinner for the New Zealanders in the forces who happened to be on leave in London on Christmas Day, and special arrangements were also made in hospitals where there were New Zealanders.