Woman's World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 127, 30 May 1944, Page 2

Woman's World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

ENGAGEMENTS.

Pearson Johnson.— The engagement is announced between Audrey Muriel, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Johnson, Raetihi, and Pte. Thomas Charles. 2nd N.Z.E.F., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Pearson, Raetihi. Davies —Taunton.— The engagement is announced of Erena Brett, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. J. Taunton, Gonville, to Henry Martial, only son of Mrs. L. A. Davies, of Turakina, and the late R. Davies.

HITHER AND THITHER

To-morrow’s Street Appeal Shop Day. Produce of all kinds, flowers, sweets, cakes, sewing, old clothes, secondhand toys and “sacrifice” articles will be on sale to-morrow at Schneideman’s old shop in Selwyn Buildings. The shop day and street appeal is organised by Army Relations Association to raise funds for soldiers’ comforts. The committee asks for gifts for the stalls, and that old clothes and non-perishable goods be left to-day if possible. A Worthy Effort. Recently the Guides throughout the Dominion took part in a Dominionwide drive for cleaning rags for the Armed Forces, as a result of which the approximate amount of rags collected was 35 tons, states the Girl Guide Journal “Te Rama,” Despite difficulties encountered the Guides did a splendid job. The rags were urgently needed for the three services. Added to this, the sum of approximately £2500 paid for these rags to the National Council of Waste, will be handed over to the'National Patriotic Fund and spent on comforts for our fighting men.

N.Z. Nurses in Japanese Prison Camps. News has recently been received of two New Zealand-trained nurses who are prisoners of war in Japanese hands. They are Miss Violet Bargrove and Mrs. Hall (nee Molly McMurray), a graduate of Auckland Hospital. Mrs. Hall is interned in a prison camp in Shanghai with her infant so’.\ anu the> are both well. Mr. "Hall is interned in a different camp. A repatriated nurse, Miss Nellie Williams, writing from Canada, gave news to New Zealand friends of Miss Gargrove and information regarding prison camp conditions. Miss Bargrove was interned in LunghVA ’civil assembly centre,” Shanghai, and was in good spirits when she left in September, 1943, said the writer. There were eight camps in and round Shanghai for civilians, and there w r ere 1700 odd in the camp referred to. It was eight miles out of the city, and Miss Bargrove nursed in the camp hospital.

. Mrs, J. Whetton, of Pahiatua, is visiting her mother, Mrs. A, E. Halligan, Ingestre Street. Mrs. E. M. Scott, Wanganui, is visiting Wellington for ten days' holiday.