Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 198, 22 August 1945, Page 2

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Miss B. A. Ma. thews, Glasgow Street, who has had staying with her

Mrs. H. B. Francis and lamily, of Lltham, now has as her guest, Mrs. Heckler, of Masterton.

Mis. T. J. Matthews and her daughter, of Pahaitua, are spending a lew days in Wanganui, anti are the guests oi. Mrs. R. Lynch Gonville.

HITHER AND THITHER The New Zealand Association in Australia had the honour of being ‘he first organisation in Sydney to entertain Mrs. J. B. Chi Hey since her husband became Prime Minister of the Commonwealth.

‘I have had to pay 8s lor a tube of toothpaste,” said Miss G. O. Fletcher, a missionary from India on a visit to New Zealand, in illustrating the tremendous rise in the cost of living in India since the war. Cheese cost up io 10s per lb. Apart from gram and certain cotton cloths, no control was exercised over prices,

c’iich had risen in some cases Lt* exibitant levels.

On a hospital ship which recently arrived in Wellington was an interesting assortment of nearly 2000 toys made during* the voyage from England by the servicemen who were returning to New Zealand. The work was directed by Nurse Fleming, of Ashburton, who joined the ship live months ago, after having worked at occupational therapy at tne New Zealand rest home at Garden City, Cairo, and at lleiwan Hospital. On the ship she had the help- of a passenger, Sergeant Eve L-alchett, of Blenheim, who has been carrying out occupational therapy at No. 2 General Hospital. Sister Grace Owen, formerly a nurse at the Auckland Hospital, who has had long service overseas, has ic'lt Auckland for Ceylon for a XurIner two years’ service with the army of occupation. She expects, when she reaches Ceylon, that sne will be sent to Singapore. At the outbreak of war, Sistei Owen joined the Queen Alexandra Military Nursing Service, and lias worked in southern India, Burma, and Ceylon, and also for four months on a hospital ship attached to the British 14th Aimy in Burma. She has recently spent 61 days’ leave in New Zealand with her parents in Gisborne.