TORPEDOED SHIP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 230, 27 September 1940, Page 9

TORPEDOED SHIP.

CHRISTCHURCH SURVIVOR. MRS. F. G. HAYES TOWNS. A cable message from London announced that Mrs. Hayes Towns, a Xew Zealander, was among those fescued when an evacuee ship taking children to Canada was torpedoed. Mrs. Towns is a Christchurch woman, well known as Miss Lilian Rose Davies, daughter of Mr. Selwyn J. -G. Davies, 37, Bishop's Road, Harewood. Mr*. Towns attended the Waimairi School and later the Canterbury College School of Art. She joined the teaching staff of Sunbeam Kindergarten, St. Albans, and like her brother, Mr. Selwyn Davie*, jun., was a member of the Canterbury Repertory Theatre Society. After her marriage to Mr. F. G. Hayes Towns, an | optician, she lived in Wellington for a time before going to England four years ago. After the outbreak of war she i joined the London Auxiliary Ambulance Corps and was appointed an official escort to the evacuated children being | sent to Canada.

Mr. Selwyn Davies said that the last letter received in Christchurch from his sister wa« dated June 24. He thinks it is probable that her step-daughter, Ann Towns, was with Mrs. Town* on the ship, but eo far he hag received no news of her. Buttons on "woollies*' often get broken or lost when the garments are washed. Make buttonholes both sides and sew the buttons on a tape. Then the whole lot can be slipped in and out easily, with no lost or broken buttons.