HITHER AND THITHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 8

HITHER AND THITHER

Croquet Council Entertains Players. As part of their programme for the I centennial celebrations, the New Zea- ! land Croquet Council, in co-operation with the Wellington Croquet Association. entertained all visiting competitors to the Dominion tournament, in Wellington at a very delightful social on Tuesday evening at the Centennial Exhibition. About 450 guests assembled at the Exhibition cabaret and enjoyed a novel and pleasant evening participating in the various entertainments arranged. War Leader’s Wives Play Their Part. While her husband is hard at. work Lady Ironside, wife of General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, is also playing her part. She is almost as busy as her husband. She is taking charge of the billetting arrangements of 80 children in a village near Norwich, where she has a cottage. Lady Kingsley Wood is also finding plenty of useful work in taking personal charge of a party of children and mothers evacuated from London. Wartime Touring. One of the results of the decrease in overseas travel, owing to the war in Europe, is •Tie organisation of a party of 37 tourists from the Otago and Southland provinces on a conducted tour of the North Island. For many years Mr. T. Ritchie, Dunedin, has been organising and conducting tours overseas, but realising that these were no longer practicable he has transferred his activities to New Zealand, and this is his first effort in a New Zealand tour. The party visited the Exhibition and is now proceeding through the North Island by easy stages. They left Wanganui on Sundr for New Plymouth, and on Monday went to the Waitomo Caves, and afterwards went, on to Auckland. They will work south again through Rotorua, Waikarcmoana and Napier. Luminous Materials For the BlackOut». In the matter ol outdoor clothes, most designers are concentrating on ideas that will prove practical and make for safety in the long months ol black-out ahead. Men’s clothes will probably become lighter in colour. The Men’s Wear Council is urging men to wear white jackets in the streets after dusk. One type of jacket is of white oilskin reaching to the waist; another, of white linen, is longer. The first is expected to be of use to A.R.P. wardens. It is recorded that in a street test, a man wearing one of these jackets was visible at 25ft. from the dim lights of a motorcar, while a companion in ordinaryclothes was invisible. Another useful device is buttons treated with luminous paint. These, if exposed during the day, will emit a greenish glow for hours in the darkness. A further suggestion is the treatment of armlets and hatbands with a secret French invention called Luminophore, which gives out remarkable phosphorescence. This substance is said to have been used for sign-posting the Maginot Line. Australian Nurses’ Uniform. Details of the uniforms of nurses who will travel oversea with the 2nd. Australian Imperial Force were made available recently in Melbourne by the Minister for the Army, Mr. Street. Outdoor uniforms will comprise a tailored norfolk coat and skirt of grey serge or gabardine, plain shirt blouse of cream silk, grey felt hat, chocolate-coloured puggaree, tailormade great-coat of grey waterproof, grey raincoat, black or tan shoes, gre; or tan stockings, grey kid gloves, am straw panamas for hot weather. Wa: or working uniforms for matrons wil be as for sisters and staff nurses, ex cept that chocolate-coloured cuffs wil be worn. Sisters’ ward uniforms wil be as for staff nurses, except that tw< chocolate bands half an inch wide wil

be worn six inches above the wrist—allowing for white linen cuffs. Ward uniforms for staff nurses will comprise a one-piece overall of washing material coloured light grey, white j Peter Pan collar, white linen nurses’ i cuffs, scarlet cloth shoulder cape, I white organdi cap. shoes and stockj ings as for outdoor uniform.