The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 24420, 28 April 1941, Page 7

The Social Round

The engagement is announced of Isabel Muriel, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs T. H. Molloy, Gummies Bush, to Albert Sydney, eldest son of Mr and Mrs F. A. Eade, Palmerston street, Riverton. Mrs W. F. Edmond, Dunedin, is the guest of Mrs W. L. Cunningham, Castle Downs. Misses C. and N. Connolly, Tweed street, left by last night’s express to spend a holiday in Auckland. Miss Eleanor Haugh, Wallacetown, has returned from a visit to her aunt, Mrs A. R. Poulson, Kennington. Miss Jean Mosley returned to Wellington on Saturday after spending, a holiday with her parents, Mr and Mrs J. T. Mosley, Ohai. A social evening was held by Mr and -Mrs G. Service, Venus street, in honour of their son’s first birthday. This brought together four generations of the family, Messrs G. Service, E. J. Service and F. Service, as well as Trevor Service. The guests also included Mr and Mrs J. Stenton and daughter, Mr and Mrs W. Winter and Mr W. Stenton. YOUNG WOMEN’S ATTITUDE INDIFFERENCE TO SERVICE ALLEGED The indifference of the younger group of women toward service to the community was commented on at a meeting in Havelock North by Miss Edith P. Tennent, Director of Voluntary Aids for- the New Zealand Red Cross Society, states The New Zealand Herald. Miss Tennent said that during her journey round the various centres and sub-centres in New Zealand she had noted that it was the older women who seemed to have a greater sense of re-

sponsibility, and the young women could not think of interrupting their round, of social activities to help their country by preparing themselves to serve efficiently.

More than 600 of New Zealand’s youngest trained and registered nurses had gone overseas, and depleted hospital staffs would have to face any serious epidemic or perhaps disaster, she added. For this reason alone the women of New Zealand should be prepared to serve efficiently in hospitals. With the object of promoting fellowship among women and backing up the men in the forces, an organization to be known as the League of the Womenfolk of the Overseas Forces was inaugurated at a public meeting in the Town Hall, Auckland last week. As originally planned it was decided that those eligable for inclusion should be wives, mothers, daughters and sisters of men of the overseas and Imperial forces and wives of returned soldiers. It was stated that if the war came to New Zealand the womenfolk of men on home defence would automatically be included. The four aims of the organization are (1) fellowship, (2), mutual help, (3) the prosecution of the wareffort, (4) vigilance.