Notes for Women

Southland Times, Issue 25478, 26 September 1944, Page 6

Notes for Women

Mrs C. A. Stewart, Avenal Flats, has returned from a visit to Dunedin.

Mrs W. Hinchey, Gala street, _ has returned from a visit to Taranaki and Wellington. Mr and Mrs W. J. Willett, Princes street, are spending a holiday at Queenstown.

Mrs N. W. Gale, Duke street, will leave early next month to live in Christchurch.

Mr and Mrs H. E. Melhop, Chelmsford street, will leave today for a short visit to Wellington.

Miss Mary Hamilton, Riverside, Winton, is visiting Dunedin for the wedding of Miss Joan Langford to Mr Peter Darling, which will take place today.

Mrs S. Bowman, Ohai, has been the guest of Mrs R. Boyd, Fulton street. She attended the W.D.F.U. fellowship day on Friday as representative of the Southern Southland Federation of Women’s Institutes.

A relaxation of the customs and censorship regulations which prohibit the dispatch of stamps overseas by private persons, has been made for the benefit of those who wish to send specimens of the new health stamps to friends overseas. Four specimens of each denomination may be sent overseas in any one letter.

A Victory Ball was held last night, St. Mary’s Hall being decorated with 20 United Nations’ flags sent for the occasion from Wellington. Coloured electric lights, lent by the City Council, gave the hall a festive air. The Mayor, Mr A. Wachner, urged support for the Victory Loan, and thanked the St. Mary’s dance committee for organizing the function. A radio description of the frocks was given by Miss L. Hallamore.

The use of flowers for home decoration was the subject of a talk given by Mrs N. W. Gale to members of the Garden Circle of the Women’s Club yesterday. Mrs Gale said that although flowers had been used for ornamental purposes since 400 8.C., great strides had been made in the art in the last 25 to 50 years. She said that flowers should be cut on a downward slant to prevent the sap from running out too quickly, and should be cut early in the morning or at dusk. Hints on how to make flowers last in water were given by the speaker, who demonstrated methods of arranging flowers in bowls, vases, jugs, and posybowls. The chairman, Miss O. Rein, introduced Mrs Gale, who was thanked for her talk by Mrs J. D. Gilmore. A competition for cut flowers in a jug was won by Mrs R. Robb, with Mrs F. Lange second. Criticism sometimes directed at the modern girl was both unjustified and unwarranted, said Mrs Janet Fraser, president, at the first general meeting of the board of trustees and members of the United Industries’ Club, which was opened in Willis street, Wellington, recently for women and girl workers in industry in the city and the Hutt' Valley. Mrs Fraser substantiated her defence of the modern girl by quoting her recent experience in the United Kingdom where, in industrial girls’ clubs, she had met many people working in the interests of girls and women who, through war circumstances, were often employed many miles away from their homes. These club workers were generous in their praise of the modern girl who took her full share in the industrial war effort. The officers of the United Industries’ Club had found that the New Zealand girl was the equal of her sister in the industries of Great Britain, said Mrs Fraser. The success that was attending the early life of the club in Wellington was further proof of the excellent type of girl for which it catered.