Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 3, 5 January 1943, Page 2

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. V. B. Haworth, St. John’s Hill, is visiting Tauranga. Miss Nancy Chelley, W.A.A.F., Ohakea, is on holiday in Wanganui. Miss Bremner, Plunket Nurse, is staying at Kai Iwi. Mrs. Oswald Allen, Wellington, is the guest of Mrs. A. Corps, Heads Road.

Misses J. and M. Symes, of Christchurch, are visiting Wanganui and are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Rule, Margaret Watt Home. Mrs. D. H. Oldfield, Auckland, is on a holiday visit to Wanganui and is staying with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Brodie, St. Hill Street. Miss A. Bartlett, of Hunterville, who has been the guest of Mrs. W. Park at Castlecliff, left last night for Karioi, on a visit to Mrs. C. Rhodes.

Miss Alison Milsom, who was one of the first to join the W.A.F. in Auckland and is now a W.A.I at a northern air station, where she works in the engineering department, was married recently to Lieutenant David Watkins, of the United States Navy Air Force. She is a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E. H. B. Milsom, Auckland. Mrs. J. W. Craven, of Auckland, has been advised by the Under-Secretary of State for War in London that her husband, Colonel J. W. Craven, who was formerly superintendent of the Auckland Hospital and later commanded the Alexandra Military Hospital at Singapore, is a prisoner of war in Malaya. He was officially posted missing early last year.

How to live rent free was described in an interview by Private Rita K. McCarthy, Hastings, who has been invalided home after service overseas. She said that when she saw for the first time old native Cairo, with its bazaars, she thought it had been bombed, as the roofs of the nabve houses were broken and open to the sky, and pieces of masonry were lying in the streets. She wondered why these conditions were allowed to continue, till she was told that as long as a part of a roof was open to the sky, a native may live in a house rent free.

The Ladies’ Institute of Health, Box 469, Auckland, will send free particulare of Nature Treatments for the following and many other ailments. Please enclose stamped envelope:— Anaemia, Asthma, Biliousness, Bladder Troubles, Blood Pressure, Boils, Catarrh, Constipation, Dandruff, Female Complaints, Influenza, Indigestion, Liver Troubles, Obesity, Psoriasis, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Synovitis, Varicose Veins, Under-weight.

HITHER AND THITHER Woman Chairman of Trades Union Council. Now that there are a million women associated with the trade union movement in Britain, it is fitting that tnu Trade Union Council should Have elected a woman, Anne Lougnlin, as its chairman. A member of the Tailoring and Garment Workers’ Union. Miss Loughlin is in her early forties. She began factory life al the age oi 12, at the rate of 3d an hour, and led a strike while still in her teens, write, a London correspondent. “If women were withdrawn from industry, the war would collapse,” said Miss Loughlin, “I hope my election—which I take as a great tribute to women—will break down prejudice against women workers. In the past they have been debarred from high positions. After the war women must not keep the places of conscripted men, but those women now being conscripted must have their jobs restored to them, too. I want women to play such a part in this war that they will be able to demand a voice in the reconstruction when it is over."

Women Wanted for Linen Flax Factories. A total of about 236 women are now employed in the Dominion's linen flax factories, and more are required, the expectation being that the tout, will be raised lo between 300 and 400. This was stated by an officer of the linen flax section of the Department of Industries and Commerce. It was stated that the section endeavoured to have the girls employed link up with the W.W.S.A. Women required had to be more than 18 years of age, but did not require factory work experience, as this would be taught. Those employed were now engaged on a wide range of work, including tractor-driving, feeding the scutching machines, deseeding in the open, and certain types o£ paddock work, and I hey were proving quite efficient. Special hostel accommodation was provided at four of the 15 factories—at Tapanui, where a boardinghouse had been purchased, at Cylrtevale. where a hostel had been built, and at Otautau and Seddon. At a number of the localities local women not requiring special accommodation were employed, but where necessary the section would arrange accommodation Each of the women employed was provided with two pairs of overalls when she reported, and with a uniform after a month’s service. At Tapanui, to overcome the l a “ ou t problem meanwhile, between 40 and 50 schoolgirls had b"en temporarily employed.