HITHER AND THITHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 2

HITHER AND THITHER

Woman Carilloneuse. England’s only carilloneuse is Miss Nora Johnston, of Sanderstead, Surrey, who has.designed her own halftone portable carillon. Miss Johnston trained for her carillon playing in Belgium, wearing boxing gloves for the process. Now she wears strong leather gloves with the fingers and thumb cut out. Aged Air Passenger. Anxious-looking officials gathered round one of the cross-Channel passenger aeroplanes arriving from Croydon at Le Bourget, the Paris aerodrome, recently, to help a little old lady of 84 climb from the machine. She was Mrs. Eliza Boxall, a native of Cardiff, who was going lo spend seven weeks with relatives at Lyons. In addition to flying across the Channel in her 85th. year, . she immediately climbed into another machine, which took her to Lyons. She had done the CroydonLyons trip twice before by air, the first occasion being just after her 78th. birthday. She is a very airminded old lady and stated that she would fly anywhere, across the Atlantic if necessary. Guides At Sea. Officers of the Sea Ranger Brancn of the Girl Guides’ Association in training in the Implacable, off Portsmouth, who rank as ratings, number 45. They are drawn from all over the country, and are employed learning elementary seamanship, states a London writer. The ship's company is divided into messes with a bosun in charge of each, and the cadet commander is Miss Anne Hopkins. Boys from H.M.S. St. Vincent are moored in another ship fairly near, and races and inter-galas will take place between the girls and boys. When the officers leave and their places are taken by the Sea Rangers for the second course, those members who are lucky enough to be in possession of Implacable Tally Bands will be allowed to travel in them. These Tally Bands were issued to last year’s people as mementos of their training. Child Guidance. Parents whose children seem backward in their school work, or are given to temper-tantrums and other symptoms of unhappiness, are now able to obtain advice and instruction forthose children from a trained psychologist and a special teacher. They are two young Sydney women who for man integral part of the childguidance clinic at the Children’s Hospital, Camperdown. A graduate of Sydney University with first-class honours in psychology, Miss Beatrice le Gay Brereton maxes friends with the parents and children, discovers the particular problems which affect the latter, and chooses for them some system of training which wil. probably be given by the parents in co-operation with herself. The other young woman, Miss Barbara McGann, is a voluntary helper who spends one morning a week at the | clinic, where she gives special lersmis in reading and arithmetic to some of ! the pupils. The clinic represents a new development in Austraaan hospital work, and several children attend each week for a half-hours instruction. Twenty clinics operating on somewhat similar lines are in existence in the British Isles, where a certain number are assisted by a speech-therapist, who treats children with defective speech, and also a playtherapist.