SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 225, 22 September 1945, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. F. J. Blake, Alma Road, has returned from Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Kean are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Harris, Wanganui East, prior to taking up residence in Wellington. Mrs. W. J. Rogers, Harper Street, Gonvilie, has returned home after a visit to her two daughters, Mrs. P. W. Blakeley, Northland, Welling.on, and Mrs. L. J. Dumbleton, Nelson. Mrs. H. E. Ziesler, Balgownie Avenue, will journey to Wellington on Monday to meet her daughter, Mrs. A. R. Kennedy, who, with her two srpail boys, David and James, is arriving from England. Since leaving Wanganui nine years ago, Mrs. Kennedy (nee Oonaga Ziesler) has lived in various parts of England and Scotland. She is the wife of Commander Kennedy, of H.M.S. Anson, whose duties have recently taken him to the Pacific. Mrs. Kennedy had made arrangements to leave England several weeks earlier, but had to return to Liverpool on account of a fire on the ship. She will receive a warm welcome from her many old friends.

League of Mothers Members of the League of Mothers are reminded that the meeting will be held on Tuesday next. September 25 in Christ Church Parish Hall, where the League will in future meet. The birthday gathering and husband’s evening will be held in October. Federated Women’s Clubs At the conference of the New Zealand Federation 6£ Women’s Clubs held in Wellington this week, Mrs. T. H. Lowry (Hastings) was elected president for the next two years and as president of the Hastings Community Club, which will now be the clubs to hold their next conference there.

it was agreed that more women police should he appointed in New Zealand and that a uniformed women’s branch should be established, a remit being passed to this effect. The conservation of trees in the Dominion was discussed and a remit passed, stated that legislation be sought which would make it compulsory to plant a tree for every one cut down. In this way, native trees and bush areas would be conserved. An idea enthusiastically received and agreed on was introduced by the Hastings Community Club. It was that the women of New Zealand be asked to subscribe one shilling each to a Winston Churchill Appreciation Fund, the money to go to Mr. Churchill, as a token of women’s appreciation. It was recalled that a somewhat similar gesture was made some years ago to her Majesty Queen Mary. The conference decided to circularize other women's clubs and organisations to find out if they would assist the proposal.