Women’s Notes

Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22185, 31 January 1942, Page 3

Women’s Notes

Mrs H. Gyllenberg-, Sarah Street, has left for Greymouth. Mrs S. A. Turner, Geraldine, is on a visit to Christchurch. Mrs T. Ottley, Oamaru. is the guest of Mrs E. Dash, Waimate. Mr and Mrs C. Minifie, Duvauchelle Bay, who have been staying with Mrs M. Minifie, Wilson Street, have returned home. Mrs D. Kennedy, Musselburgh, Dunedin, who has been the guest of her daughter, Mrs M. J. Meehan, “Sherwood,” Makikihi, has returned home. Mrs Bruce Watt, who has been spending a holiday with her mother, Mrs R. Brodie, Sealy Street, has returned to Auckland. It is reported from London that, after long representation, women civil servants over the age of 21 years have won the right to hold executive positions. Miss L. Hurle, headmistress of the Timaru Girls’ High School, who has been spending the holidays at her home in New Plymouth, has returned to Timaru. Mr and Mrs G. H. Andrews, Evans Street, have returned from a holiday at the river. Their daughter, Mrs W. S. Townsend, who is staying with them, will return to Christchurch to-morrow. Miss Marion Moore, of the Public Trust Office, Gore, and youngest daughter of Mrs D. Moore, Broughton Street, Gore, has been notified that she has been accepted for overseas service with the welfare section of the Women’s War Service Auxiliary. Miss Moore is to report in Wellington on February 12. Miss Moore was previously notified that she would proceed overseas as a V.A.D. clerical worker, but this notification TZixS later cancelled.

The establishment by the Young Women’s Christian Association at Singapore of a children’s centre and a centre for women and girls, all of whom are refugees from the north of Singapore or victims of air attacks, was referred to by the secretary, Miss Leila Bridgman, an Aucklander, in letters to her relatives in New Zealand. Miss Bridgman describes how, after the entry of Japan into the war, she and the president of the Singapore Y.W.C.A. offered the services of the association to the Colonial Secretary. He asked them immediately to set up a centre for walking children who might be separated from or lose their parents in air raids. The association took over a large modern Chinese girls’ school and equipped it to take 500. An American woman principal of a girls’ school is in charge under the direction of Miss Bridgman, who will live there at emergency times. ENGAGEMENT EASTGATE—BRIDG E WATER The engagement is announced of Geoffrey Lancelot, eldest son of Mr and Mrs E. L. Eastgate, of Dunedin, and Faith Jessica, younger daughter of Mrs and the late Mr A. J. Bridgewater, of Christchurch, formerly of Timaru.