Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 271, 16 November 1943, Page 2

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Miss Helen Laidlaw, Wellington, spent, the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Laidlaw, Boydfield Street, Wanganui East. Miss A. Barldrop, of Nelson, is visiting Wanganui and is staying with her niece, Mrs. R. H. Tizard, Upper Aramoho. Miss Ada Griffin has joined the Women’s Land Service and is leaving Wanganui to-day to take up a position at Stratford. Mrs. T. Clifton Webb has resigned from the presidency of the Auckland branch of the Plunket Society, because as her husband has been elected M.P. for Kaipara, she will, in future, spend much time in that district. Advice that a .brigade of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific had given £93 to provide Christmas cheer for the patients in the Wilson Home for Crippled Children, Auckland, was received by the Auckland Hospital Board from the Rev. J. Pierce, chaplain to the Forces. Mr. Pierce said the money represented the result of a raffle held among the men of the brigade, the prize being a carving set made by Private S. Withers from materials salvaged from a Japanese aeroplane which had recently been shot down. The gift was a mark of the men’s appreciation of the purpose for which the home was used. A daughter of one of the early pioneer families, Mrs. Alice Violet Anderson, wife of Mr. Charles Edward Anderson, of Arawa Street, Grafton, Auckland, has died, aged 73. Her father was the late Captain Robert Hattaway, formerly H.M. 58th Regiment, and her mother’s father was the late Sergeant Michael O’Learv'of H.M. 65th Regiment, both of which battalions fought in the Maori wars from 1842. Mrs. Anderson was a medical, surgical and maternity nurse who trained at Hamilton and practised at Auckland and other hospitals, as well as privately. She was, before her marriage, matron of the Old Veterans ’Jubilee Home, Wangafiui. HITHER AND THITHER

Art Exhibition. The art exhibition of water colours, oils and etchings by Miss E. J. D. Turner will continue daily this week at the studio in the Union Bank Building. Kohi Women’s Institute. Mrs. R. Lennox presided at the November meeting, at which it was decided to hold the December meeting in the form of a garden party at the home of Mrs. Lennox. A short talk on the federation meeting at Wanganui was given. A vocal item by Mrs. Lennox and a pianoforte solo by Miss Hughes was much enjoyed. Competitions resulted: Scones, senior, Mrs. Waterland 1. Mrs. Milne 2; junior, Miss Gulliver 1; vegetables, Mrs. Lennox and Mrs. Milne (equal) 1; flowers, Mrs. S. Hone 1, Mrs. Lennox 2. Army Relations Meeting. Mrs. T. Russell, president, presided over a good attendance of members at the monthly meeting of Army Relations held yesterday afternoon in Christ Church Parish Hall. The National Anthem and a special prayer for soldiers opened the meeting. Sympathy for Mrs. J. P. Laird in the death of her husband was expressed, it was announced that the shop day, which was to have been held this week, will be postponed until Februarv. The president pointed out that the December meeting comes in Christmas week and said she hoped as many members as possible would be present as there will be no meeting during January. Letters for assistance given were received from the Y.M.C.A., and A.N.A. Club, and the president expressed her thanks to the members for their help to these organisations. Mrs. D. Lilburne read the minutes and correspondence and Mrs. T. C. Laidlaw presented the financial statemet. A member, Mrs. H. Dashfield, entertained with songs, and Mesdames S. Rankin and J. Foster with pianoforte duets. The “bring-and-buy” stall was in charge of Mesdames Caiman and Lucie. The tea hostesses were Mesdames Dashfield (convener), A. J. Burtt. A. H. Collins, Davies and J. McDougal. Letters of acknowledgment for parcels received by soldiers overseas were read. Kaitoke Women’s Institute. In the absence of the president, Mrs. A. N. Lynch, owing to illness, Mrs. J. .Shanks took the chair at the November meeting of the Kaitoke Women’s Institute and read the federation meeting report. Being international day there was a good display of foreign articles. Italy and her people was the subject of an interesting address by Miss E. N. Sampson. The soldiers’ parcel was drawn in favour of Mrs. Garner and Mrs. Service. Afternoon tea was served by Mesdames Leineweber and Gohns. Votes of thanks were accorded to Miss Sampson and Mrs. Shanks. Competitions were: Cakes, Mrs. Burston I, Miss Aiken 2, Mrs. Shanks 3; hankies, Mrs. Hunt 1. Miss Scott 2; best flower. Mrs. McKehnan 1. Mrs. Hunt and Mrs. Shanks (equal) 2. AMERICAN WIVES VISAS AFTER THE WAR Marriages and engagements between New Zealand girls and American servicemen will create special problems after the war for the United States immigration authorities. While wives are excluded from the restrictions of the quota system which the American Government long ago imposed upon the various countries from which it admits immigrants —and in their case there are such conditions as the ability of the husbands to support them—fiancees may fall into another category unless special dispensations are made for them. The American Consul in Auckland, Mr. Hiram A. Boucher, said on Tuesday that no waiting list for post-War immigration to the United States can now be maintained because the annual quota of 100 for New Zealand is not being used. This was due to wartime conditions and lack of transportation. However, the consulate in Auckland desired to have the names of wives and fiancees of American servicemen in the area for the purpose of estimating the potential postwar demand for immigration visas.