The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 24162, 26 June 1940, Page 7

The Social Round

The lady editor will be pleased to receive for publication in “The Social Round” each day items of social or personal news. Such items should be sent in promptly and should be fully authenticated Engagement notices must bear the signatures of both parties. Correspondence is invited on any matters affecting, or of Interest to, women.

Mr and Mrs H. W. Kirby, Tauranga, are visiting Australia. They will spend a month at Cairns.

Mr and Mrs D. A. Solomon will return to Dunedin tomorrow after spending a few days at the Grand Hotel. A meeting will be held in the Waikiwi Hall at 2.30 p.m. today to form a sub-committee of the Red Cross Society.

Miss June Carswell, Gladstone terrace, will leave at the week-end to begin training as a nurse in the Christchurch Public Hospital. Miss Betty Macdonald, Avenal, who has been visiting Auckland, is the guest of Mrs C. P. Feltham, Masterton, before returning home at the end of the

Mr and Mrs E. S. Solomon, who have cofne from Dunedin to live in Invercargill, are staying at the Grand Hotel until they take up residence at 310 Dee street in a fortnight’s time. A meeting to form a sub-committee of the Red Cross Society was held in East Invercargill yesterday, when there were 22 present. Mrs J. Hargest and Miss J. E. McLeod addressed the meet-

ing. The following committee was formed: Mesdames S. Smith (chairman), D. K. Torrance (secretary), W. Stewart, I. G. Orr, C. Boyce and P. Wilson and Misses N. Baird and Selby. What is claimed to be a new cure for leprosy has been discovered by Sister Marie Suzanne, a French nun of the Society of Mary, who has been working for many years in the Makogai leper colonies, reports The Catholic Citizen. She found that the lepers of Makogai eased their pain with an oil made from special nuts. She experimented with this oil and produced an ethylic ether which, when injected into the patient, causes almost instant relief. At the time this report was published Sister Marie Suzanne was in France to discuss the cure with scientists and experts.

Using the same recipe as she did in the last war, Mrs H. J. Barnard, of Island Bay, is again baking ginger huts for the New Zealand soldiers. During the years 1914-18 Mrs Barnard dispatched 3001 b of ginger nuts to New Zealand troops overseas and already she has contributed another 801 b. She received scores of letters from appreciative Anzacs in the last war, and these alone made her effort worth while, she said. In the Great War Mrs Barnard had six out of eight sons fighting in France or at Gallipoli, and two failed to return. Again she has two boys in the Army. Last time one of her own boys, by pure chance, received a tin of his mother’s bisciiits in a tin lined with paper and containing the personal message she always sent. Tins are Mrs Barnard’s greatest problem at the moment, for the supply given her by friendly shop keepers is. not sufficient for her needs.