CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23962, 1 June 1943, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Miss Alice Candy has been reappointed representative of the Canterbury University College Council on the executive of the Students’ Union. Miss E. Fraser was appointed matron of Rolleston House hostel by the Canterbury University College Council yesterday. The head of the American Red Cross hospital service for the south-west Pacific area, Miss Satterley, has been a recent visitor to Wellington in the course of a field trip. Miss Satterley, whose headquarters are in Australia, was formerly attached to a naval hospital Red Cross unit in Norfolk, Virginia. She is a trained social worker and a graduate of a social college in the United States. Her present duties cover supervision of American recreational and social service activities. A luncheon in honour of Mrs E. M. Begg i Wakanui), for 13 years provincial housekeeping secretary, was given recently by the Mid-Canterbury Executive of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union on Friday. Mrs W. J. Quantock (president) presented Mrs Begg with a Dominion life membership badge and later in the day Mrs A S. Hayman made the presentation of a framed life membership certificate to Mrs Begg. Appreciation of Mrs Begg’s work for the union was expressed by Messrs P. J. Mowat and R. D. Robinson (MidCanterbury executive), Mesdames G. Moore, A. S. Hayman, F. Johnson, and Wilson. Most branches were represented at the luncheon. The Tunisian victory day collection held in Auckland on Friday will pr<Dbably surpass any patriotic collection yet held in Auckland, including the Poppy Day collection on April 16. when the sum of £4OIO was taken. It is intended to send all the money for comforts for New Zealanders with the Bth Army in North Africa. The marriage took place on March 2, at St. Mary’s Church, Hornsey, London, of Sub-Lieutenant W. J. D. (Des.) Minogue, R.N.Z.N.V.R., son of Mr and Mrs L. J. Minogue, of Takapuna, Auckland, and Miss Delicia Barbara Merser, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Stanley Merser, of Hornsey. The best man was Sub-Lieutenant Jim Howden, R.N.Z.N.V.R., son of the late “Ally” Howden, New Zealand representative cricketer, and brother of Dr. Charles Howden, of Auckland. Sub-Lieutenant Minogue, who was a Rugby blue and senior cricketer at Auckland University, has been on active service with the Navy since December, 1940. During 1941 he was engaged on convoy work between the United Kingdom and Gibraltar. Last year he was on convoy duty round the coast of West Africa. Miss Cynthia Wilson, of Bulls, who is attached to the Polish forces, has recently been visiting London, where she attended a gathering at the Overseas Club. She was wearing on her uniform the New Zealand and Polish flashes, and also the Scottish thistle badge which indicates the brigade to which she was attached before joining the Polish forces. The lady editor of “The Press” gratefully acknowledges receipt of several golf clubs from Mrs Hill, Mansfield avenue, for use of returned servicemen. A substantial sum of money, part of the proceeds of a gymkhana held several weeks ago by the Legion of Frontiersmen, has been added to the provincial patriotic fund and earmarked for the work done by the Christchurch Ladies’ Guild of the British Sailors’ Society for men of the Merchant Navy. This information was given in a letter from the Legion of Frontiersmen read at a meeting of the ladies’ guild, held yesterday afternoon. Miss B. Sanders presided, Appreciation of the generosity and goodwill of the Frontiersmen was expressed by' members. It was reported that members of the guild had visited seamen in the Christchurch Hospital and in the Cashmere Sanatorium, that various minor improvements were being carried out at the Seamen’s Institute in Lyttelton, and that entertainment had been provided for visiting members of the Merchant Navy. A table, the gift of Messrs L. J. Taylor and Miller, it was reported, was a welcome addition to the guild’s wool room in Colombo street, and arrangements were being made to send a case of woollen comforts to London to be distributed amongst seamen. Mrs Derrick Gould undertook to make preliminary arrangements for the guild’s annual bridge party, which will probably be held towards the end of July. Gifts of magazines from Mrs J. F. Buchanan and Mrs A, I. Rattray were gratefully acknowledged. “Such attractive styles" is the opinion of all who have seen the new autumn models, now being shown bv Mrs Freeman at “Georgette" Millinery. Ballantynes buildings. Cashel street, and Ee-t street. Ashburton —6 Miss Nora Yates, of whom two photographs are showing in the Firth Exhibition in Regent Buildings, is one of the prettiest of Auckland’s younger set. —6 Stop Grey Hair Now. 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