Notes for Women

Southland Times, Issue 25692, 29 June 1943, Page 6

Notes for Women

Miss Ray Courtis, Earnslaw street, leaves today to spend a holiday in Christchurch and Napier. Mr and Mrs F. Finlayson, King street, have returned from a holiday visit to Christchurch and Dunedin. Mrs John Griffiths, Hundalee, who has been the guest of Mrs F. J. Loughnan, Gala street, will return north tomorrow. Dr and Mrs Stephen Barclay, Palmerston North, who have been visiting Invercargill and Queenstown, have returned north. Mrs E. Cooper, Princes street. Miss H. Cooper, and Miss Meldrum, St. Andrew street, will visit Dunedin for the FornoStalker wedding. Miss Mary Langford, Lewis street, a nursing sister at the Southland Hospital, Kew, has been accepted for overseas service and will leave for the north on Thursday. Mrs D. W. Stalker, Tay street, will visit Dunedin to attend the wedding of her daughter, Miss Joan Stalker, to Mr W. Cameron Forno, which takes place on Thursday. Misses Joan and Coral Rose, Thelma Small, Isla Donnelly, Dawn Lawson, and Grace Hillis will leave by this morning’s express to spend a holiday at the Hermitage, Mt. Cook. More than 10,000 women are working for the London Passenger Transport Board, replacing men in all types of subway work except driving trains. At least 6670 women are employed on London buses, and more are being trained. For the most part they do the general work of conductors. A function was held to celebrate the silver wedding of Mr and Mrs James Mulcahy, Sydney street, at which four generations were present. Community singing was held, and items were given by Miss Sylvia Crowe, Winton, Mrs Dixon and the Misses Dixon and Mr Mulcahy. A presentation of a sheaf of flowers and a floral horseshoe was made by Mrs S. H. Lockerbie, and a second horseshoe was presented to Mrs Mulcahy by Mrs Morrison.