Notes for Women

Southland Times, Issue 25747, 10 August 1945, Page 3

Notes for Women

Miss K. Leary, Queenstown, is the guest of Mrs R. Lee, Dee street, Gladstone. Mrs M. C. Fairbrother, Wellington, arrives next Wednesday on a visit to Mrs W. D. Palmer, Tane, Waikiwi. Mrs E. D. McNeill, Brighton, Dunedin, is staying with her mother, Mrs Mac Kay, Venus street! Mrs N. E. McKeever, Kelvin street, has returned from a visit to Dunedin. Mrs Fenton, Auckland, and Miss Mona Muir, Dunedin, are staying with Mrs W. A. H. Oliver, Holywood terrace. As a result pf the recent appeal made by the Invercargill branch of the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild for clothing for people in the devastated countries of Europe during the past week, 60 bales and 49 cases of goods have been despatched north ready for shipment. Mention of the long service given by Mrs M. A. McDowell, the member of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Gore, of the longest standing, was made at the annual meeting of the church. Mrs McDowell joined the church on March 27, 1895. It was decided to send her a letter of greeting.

Attractive buttons cut from discarded toothbrush handles were among the many articles at the exhibition and sale of goods made by the patients of the Auckland Mental Hospital receiving training in occupational therapy. Handwoven dress lengths and scarves in varied designs, gloves, children’s toys, rugs and woodware were displayed. Miss Rosaleen Hickmott, the young coloratura soprano, of Wellington, has been awarded the overseas scholarship offered by the Trinity College of Music, London. It is tenable for one year, with the probability of extension if the student shows special promise. Miss Hickmott, who received her musical training at St. Mary’s Convent, Hill street, will leave for England soon. Ida Lupino has been forced to cut short her U.S.O. tour of American Army camps by doctor’s orders and leave New York for Hollywood to rest, says an air mail letter from Los Angeles. She received injuries moving a trunk in her New York hotel room. Miss Lupino, daughter of the wellknown English actor Stanley Lupino land Connie Emerald, started her acting career almost before she learned to walk. Active in organizing a volunteer ambulance unit and appearing at various camps to help in the entertainment of servicemen, Miss Lupino was among the first screen celebrities to get into war work, months before the attack on Pearl Harbour.

“I expect you will be interested to hear about some of the things that have happened to us since that fateful day, June 28, 1940, when we were bombed, and on July 1 occupied,” say? a correspondent writing recently from the Channel Islands to a friend in Dunedin. “It has been a succession of orders from the first day, altering the whole trend of our existence, and; as time went on, going from bad to worse, everything gradually disappearing, shops being emptied, and the majority closed. Our shopping days were Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, hours 10 to 12 noon and 2 to 4 afternoon. We have usedisubstitutes for so many things, and vegetables played a major part in our menus. As for the good old potato, I don’t really know how we would have fared without it—for many it was potatoes for breakfast, dinner, and tea. Carrots and parsnips grated and roasted we used for coffee substitute, sugar beet for tea, and very good, too, sugar beet syrup in place of jam—very tedious to make. Eggs were something you knew of but seldom saw, and when you could get them the price was prohibitive, from 2/11 to 4/3 each! Bread was rationed, 4Jlb per person per week, and in February this year we were without bread for four weeks. In the black market butter changed hands at from £2/10/— to £4 a pound and tea up to £l6 a pound. We have had no gas since last August, but hope to have a limited supply in a few weeks’ time, and no light since January. There has been no coal, and hence the cutting down of so many of our trees.”