Notes for Women

Southland Times, Issue 25737, 30 July 1945, Page 6

Notes for Women

Mrs J. G. Macdonald, Don street, returns tomorrow from a visit to Christchurch and Waitomo. Major and Mrs tan Arthur are the guests of Mrs J. R. Hanan, Elies road. Mrs G. M. Corbet, Tweed street, is visiting Mrs L. Foote, Tai Tapu, Christchurch. Mrs M. J. O’Carroll, Crinan street, is spending a holiday in Dunedin. Lieutenant and Mrs W. S. F. Moffett, Wanganui, are visiting relations in Invercargill. Mrs J. McKinnel, High street, Rosedale, provincial president of the W.D.F.U., who has been attending the annual conference of the union, returns home tomorrow. Sister Vina McPhail, formerly of Mitcham arid Rakaia, has been appointed assistant matron at the Timaru Public Hospital. Sister McPhail has recently been on the staff of the public hospital at Kew. The charity ball to be held in Wellington next Thursday promises to be one of the outstanding social events of the season. A spectacular feature will be the presentation of 90 debutantes to his Grace Archbishop O’Shea. Present day pupils, many of them daughters of members of the Southland Girls’ High School Old Girls’ Association, provided an entertainment at a social evening held by the association on Thursday in the Welcome Club. National folk dances, under the direction of Miss M. Lindsay, were performed with precision. Miss M. B. Campbell conducted the school sextet and quartet in choral numbers, and two plays—“lt’s a Small World” and “Cream o’ Tartar”—were presented, the producers being Miss C. McHaffie and Miss V. White. The president, Mrs Harold Rout, welcomed members and guests, and Mrs J. N. Armour thanked the performers, whose progress in drama, music, folk dancing and eurhythmies was evident from the varied

programme presented for the enjoyment of pupils of earlier days. POSTWAR MODEL KITCHEN Housewives’ Suggestions More than 4000 housewives and prospective housewives have submitted their ideas on the planning of the postwar kitchen as a result of a large-scale inquiry just completed in England, states a London correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, Sydney. Lists of questions were circulated through women’s organizations, factories, and training colleges, and a report of the survey is to be sent to chief electrical engineers, architects, and building contractors. It is hoped that a model kitchen, embodying the views expressed, will be shown shortly in Manchester. Voting was practically unanimous in favour of a refrigerator, 93 per cent, of women asked regarding this as an essential, but stipulating that cost should be kept down to about £lB. Opinions on built-in appliances were varied: Forty-eight per cent, favoured built-in units, with 50 per cent, against them. Of electrical units, first place was given to the electric stove and second to the hot water system. Housewives in small homes in many instances gave the washing machine precedence over the refrigerator. More than 11,0000 replies were received to specific questions. These comprised suggestions for ovens with both side and bottom heat, more power plugs in rooms, and the proviso of an electrically heated drying cabinet. One suggestion, classed in the report as “Utopian,” was for a “cooker that could become a refrigerator by turning a knob.” RED CROSS NEWS Donations and goods sent in during the past week will be acknowledged next Saturday.