The Social Round

Southland Times, Issue 24654, 28 January 1942, Page 7

The Social Round

Mrs Noel McGregor, Mt. Linton, is visiting Dunedin.

Miss Shirley Lilley is spending a holiday at Hokitika.

Lady Hunt, who has been staying with Miss E. B. Edwards, Albert street, will return to Dunedin today.

Miss Phillippa Hodge, Gladstone Terrace, has returned from a holiday spent at Oamaru.

, Mrs G. M. Boyd, who has been the guest of Mrs C. F. Speight, Wether Hill, Ohai, has returned to Dunedin. Mrs Sadie Macdonald, 0.8. E., who has been honoured by appointment as a member of the just-formed Rehabilitation Council, is well known in Dunedin. She served from 1915 t0\1919 with the U.S: Army Nurse Corps in France. She was an active social worker in Dunedin for a number of years, and was a member of the Otago Hospital Board. She was honorary organizing

secretary of the Otago Obstetric Chair Appeal. In 1931 she was appointed a member of the Women's Unemployment Board. She has been prominent in the Plunket' Society, Girl Guides, and other women’s organizations.

On Friday afternoon at the Disabled Soldiers’ Products shop in Dee street, Mrs D. Mulvey, president of the Southern Southland Federation of Women’s Institutes, will give a demqristration of spinning, using the sewing machine attachment made by the returned soldiers. The various stages in the preparation of the raw fleece for spinning will be shown, and garments made from the wool will be on display. Stockings and other articles of clothing made from the raw fleece are particularly good for men working on minesweepers, as the oil in the wool makes them practically waterproof. It'is hoped that visitors seeing the value of these knitted goods, will give wool to be spun. The attachment, which may be fitted to an ordinary sewing-machine, will be on sale at the shop.