Notes for Women

Southland Times, Issue 25502, 24 October 1944, Page 3

Notes for Women

Mrs J. R. Wesney, Avenal Flats, returned last night from a visit to Taieri. Mrs W. Strang, Christchurch, is visiting Mrs R. M. Strang, Lewis street. Mrs C. L. Harney, Ythan street, returned yesterday from Mosgiel, where she spent the weekend. - Mrs P. B. Witt and Miss Gem Witt, Duke street, have been spending Labour weekend at the Rocks.

Miss Marjorie Prichard, Dunedin, has been spending the weekend with her parents, Mr and Mrs H. D. Prichard, Don street.

Miss Raynor Huffadine, Dunedin, has been visiting her parentSj Mr and Mrs J. H. Huffadine, Nelson street, for Labour weekend. For the first time, each sick and wounded man received a parcel from the joint Red Cross and St. John organization when a hospital ship arrived in the Dominion recently. It contained a pair of warm pyjamas, two pairs of hand-made socks, and some pure linen handkerchiefs. The handkerchiefs were the work of the St. John Women’s War Committee, Wellington, and were made from waste linen salvaged from rubber.

The Dominion headquarters of the Girl Guides’ Association is issuing a call to past and present members of the movement to volunteer for relief work in Europe under the direction of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Association. All young women over the age of 18 who are physically fit and have certain qualifications may volunteer and take the training, but probably only those over 21 will be sent abroad. The British headquarters of the Guide movement has already a team of young women working in Greece, and the-Dominion headquarters is anxious that some of its New Zealand members should be included in the team going from here. The work abroad will probably be organizing camps for those trying to return to their homes, and other work such as manning wayside first-aid posts, cooking, helping in remote villages and on farms, and looking after children. Those chosen must expect to live under hard and possibly dangerous conditions, and an applicant must have perfect physical fitness. If selected to represent the Guide movement, applicants will have to go before a selection committee of UNRRA, who will make the final decision. The qualifications necessary are humanitarian motives and some Guide qualifications of ability, initiative, and reliability, and camping experience, also a knowledge of one or more of the following:—Nursing, medicine, vehicle maintenance, cookery, agriculture, child welfare, dietetics, occupational therapy, languages, or experience in welfare, emergency feeding,or first aid work.