Notes for Women

Southland Times, Issue 25642, 9 April 1945, Page 6

Notes for Women

Mrs E. L. England, Crinan street, has returned from a visit to Dunedin. Mrs Geoffrey Broughton, Kelvin street, is spending a holiday at Alexandra.

Miss D. Christie, of Dunedin, is staying with her sister, Mrs H. Halligan, West Plains.

Mrs J. F. Alexander, Greymouth, is the guest of her sister, Mrs F. V. Tymons, Bowmont street. Miss Betty Lewis, Fox street, left on Saturday morning for Wellington, where she has taken a position. Mrs and Mrs David Wilkie, Dunedin, are the guests of Mrs P. H. Nicholson, Chelmsford street.

Mrs V. McDonald, Collingwood street, is visiting her daughter, Mrs Cleland Millar, Christchurch. Miss M. Douglas, Elies Road, returned during the weekend from a holiday at Stewart Island. Mr D. C. Kidd, M.P. for Waitaki, and Mrs Kidd, were recent guests of Colonel and Mrs P. McKenzie, Queenstown.

A meeting of members of the East Invercargill Red Cross Committee will be held on Thursday in the Mitchell street kindergarten at 2.30 p.m. Among the arrivals recently at Auckland from overseas was Lady Hicks, wife of Colonel Sir C. Stanton Hicks, A.I.F. Lady Hicks was formerly Miss Florence Haggitt, daughter of Mr John Haggitt, Dunedin, and her husband, who was born at Mosgiel, has won for himself a wide reputation as a physiologist and pharmacologist. Lady Hicks will visit the South Island. Air Force Relations acknowledge with thanks knitted garments from the following: Mesdames A. Wren, J. Myron, E. North, A. R. Morrison, K. Harrison, E. McLellan, V. Walsh, E. Stevens, W. McKay, T. Ward, L. Raymond, Fossy (senr.), M. Kerr; Misses A. Sounness, Nicholson, C. McEwan, Donaldson, Petchell, M. Robertson, Armstrong, B. Whyte; Mr A. Brown; Riverton W.W.S.A.

At the annual meeting of the Waikiwi W.D.F.U. the following officers were elected:—President, Mrs A. F. Waters; secretary, Mrs R. M. MacGregor; treasurer, Mrs W. Sands; vicepresidents, Mesdames S. Allan, W. A. Gray, W. A. Robertson, C. Myers and V. Cox; committee, Mesdames Aicken, F. Batt, E. S. Crooks, E. Clark, B. Perriam, F. Rhind and W. Steel. The following were the prize-winners for the yearly competitions: Mrs E. Matthews 1, Mrs G. Waters 2, Mrs A. F. Waters 3. Best bloom: Mrs Aicken 1, Mrs Steel 2, Mrs E. Matthews 3. Special bloom: Mrs Steel 1, Mrs E. Matthews 2, Mrs W. A. Gray 3. Mrs S. Allan presented the president, Mrs Waters, and the secretary, Mrs MacGregor, with shoulder sprays.

Obituary.—Miss Margaret Finlayson, whose death occurred suddenly, was well known in Invercargill as a masseur. She was the third daughter of the late Mr and Mrs John Finlayson, of Don street, who settled in Invercargill about 1859. She was educated at Park school, and for a time was employed in the photographic studio of Mr C. Gerstenkom. She later became interested in massage treatment, and went to Wellington for training in this work. During the last war she did much valuable work among soldiers at both Christchurch and Invercargill hospitals, but in recent years practised privately.