For WOMEN

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23965, 4 June 1943, Page 2

For WOMEN

CUKKEiNT NOTES

Mrs Emily Sprott, who was awarded the M.B.E. in the King s Birthday honours, is a daughter-in-law of the late Bishop Sprott, of Wellington., She spent more than 20 years as a Melanesian Mission worker on Ysabel Island, in the Northern Solomons, before coming to New Zealand early this year. During her last 13 months on the island she was the only white woman there and for a long period, when the Japanese were in occupation, lived in the jungle, moving constantly from place to place to avoid capture. She is at present in Auckland. During last month the residents of Somerfield street gave £7 10s to the Patriotic Fund and made 10 pairs of mittens and seven balaclavas. The matron of the Cashmere Sanatoria gratefully acknowledges receipt of the following gifts during May:—hot bottle covers, mittens, etc., for soldier patients from Rangi-ruru Girls’ School; magazines from Mrs Charlewood. For Fresh Air Home: magazines from Miss Gilmour; books and marbles from Mrs Graham, a dressing gown from Canterbury Women's Club, cakes from Mrs Manson and Mrs Ferguson, cakes and jellies from Mrs Bonin, and a case of apples from Mr Robertson. At the annual meeting of the West of England Ladies’ Association, the following officers were elected;—president, Mrs H. Booth; vice-presidents, Mrs Easterbrook and Mrs Logan; secretary, Mrs Owen, jun.; treasurer, Mrs Deans; committee, Mrs Rhodes and Mrs Ebert. A vote of thanks was passed to Mrs Hammett, the retiring president, and Mrs Rodberry, retiring secretary. Monsieur H. Honore, president, presided over a large attendance of members at the last meeting of Cercle Francais. Mr and Mrs R. J. McLaren and Mile. P. Gross were host and hostesses for the evening, and the programme included two competitions, won by Miss J. Horth and Miss Frances Honore, musical items by Mr and Mrs McLaren, and a humorous reading from Mark Twain by Mr R. J. McLaren. On Tuesday evening members of the Oxford Plunket Society held a successful ball. Mesdames F. Gorton (president), K. D. Henderson, M. H. Knowles, and H. P. Thompson with the help of an energetic committee, were responsible for the arrangements. Music was played by Miss Brady’s orchestra. During the evening Mrs M. Johnston, wife of the president of the Oxford Collie Club, presented cups won at the trials concluded that day. The trials this year were run to help Oxford Red Cross and Soldiers’ Parcel Fund. The following passed in the examination in advanced home nursing held by the Red Cross Society, in . Christchurch on May 19;— Kathleen Alley, Evelyn Bercock, Linda Baynon, Alice Flick, Esme Bridgman, Ethel Byrne, Pamela Fanning, Dorothy Fehsenfeld, Lois Field, Ellen Fisher, Nesta Forsyth, Sue Gasson, Lola Johnstone, Florence McDowell, Daisy McFedries, Kathleen Ireland, Alice McJannet, Mary Miles, Jessie Pearce, Mary Prew, M. E. Robinson, and Jessie Seward. Those who passed in the examination in advanced first aid held at Leeston on May 3 were: Mildred Brooks, Dorothy McMillan, Betty Onhandy, and Jean Reid. •Two well-known residents of Waikato, Mr and Mrs G. Rennie, of Netherby, Taupiri, celebrated their golden wedding yesterday. Mr Rennie was the eldest son of the late Mr John Rennie, of Mayfield, Doyleston. Canterbury. He married Miss Annie Elizabeth Morrish, eldest daughter of the late Mr Richard Morrish, of Springston, Canterbury, at St. Mary’s Church, Springston, on May 31,1893. Mr and Mrs Rennie were both born in Canterbury. After farming in Lincoln for 25 years, Mr Rennie settled in Taupiri with his family in 1916. For many years he specialised in the breeding of draught horses, besides carrying on dairy farming. Mrs Sarah Darling, widow of Mr James Darling, formerly manager of the Kelburn and Karori Tramway Company, Ltd., died at Thames on Tuesday. She was born in the Shetland Isles, and came to New Zealand at an early age with her parents, who settled in Canterbury. Later she attended Canterbury University College and became a teacher. In Wellington, she was one of the founders of the Mothers’ Helpers Society and was a member of the Navy League and Repertory Theatre Society. Miss Hannah More Fraser, of the American Red Cross, who has been in New Zealand since last November as director of club and off-camp activities, has left Wellington for Auckland on her way to Australia, where she will take up a new appointment with the headquarters staff. Her new sphere of work will take her anywhere in the south and south-west Pacific where the American Red Cross has club and rest areas, which she will supervise. Under her direction, five American Red Cross clubs for servicemen have been established in the North Island and dance programmes have been arranged at the various camps. In addition a dance club was successfully organised at St. Francis hall in Wellington.

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ENGAGEMENT

The engagement is announced of Eileen Laura Muriel, only daughter of the late Mr H. Taylor and Mrs D. H. McJarrow, Southbridge, to George Everest, eldest son of Mr and Mrs A. C. Finlay, Milltown, Southbridge.

WOMEN’S INSTITUTES

Bryndwr.—The monthly meeting of the Bryndwr Women’s Institute was held at the home of Mrs Patterson, Clyde road, Mrs H. J. Goodman presiding. The attendance was good, and brisk business was done rt the sales table. Several gifts were received for soldiers’ parcels. Knitting done by the members during May included four balaclavas, five pairs mittens, and two dozen heellcss stockings. A letter was received from the secretary of Dr. Barnardo’s Homes In London acknowledging a parcel of children’s garments made by members of the Institute and sent overseas last January. Mrs Patterson gave an instructive talk on