CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24898, 11 June 1946, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

Mr J. G. Parry presided at a meeting of the Cambrian Society on Saturday evening. The Little Concert Party provided the programme, which consisted of songs by Mrs Linda Haase and Mr Ernest Rogers, pianoforte items by' Mrs Merle Carter, violin solo? and obbligatos by Mr Maitland McCutcheon, and conjuring by Mr Jack Boughen. The hostess wag Mrs Parry, At a Vecital given by Miss Mary Wigley’s students in the rooms of the Federation of University Women recently, monologues, impromptu speeches, and stories written by the students were popular items, Mr H. Ballantyne presided, and those who took part included Megdames G. Cook, F. Moginie, C. G. Schumacher, B. Fitzgibbons, Misses N. Ogilvie, NWright, and Messrs L. Waters and D. B. White. Mrs R. J, McLaren was the accompanist, Miss Audrey Newton (Wellington) has been appointed to take charge of the diversional therapy work at the Timaru Public and Chest Hospitals, and has already begun work at both hospitals. She is being assisted by voluntary helpers who have been trained by Miss F. M. Hislop in the handwork to be taught the patients, and has also given lectures on the scope and specialised uses of diversional therapy. Full-time voluntary assistance Is being given by Miss P. Breen, and Mesdames W. E. Mackay, A. N. Campbell, Misses M. Greer, E. Hassell, F. Clissold, G. Ulrich, F. Sunaway, and Messrs A. Walter and §. Taylor give a certain number of hours each week. Some of the helpers are already working in the wards.

Miss F. M, Hislop, who was one of the two young women sent to Australia by the New Zealand Red Cross for specialised training in diversional therapy, has been in Timaru since the end of April to train a group of voluntary helpers and to organise a scheme for the Timaru Centre of the Red Cross Society, in which it offered to provide a trained therapist, assisted fey voluntary helpers, to work among patients in the public and chest hospitals at Timaru, The South Canterbury Hospital Board accepted the offer, and the scheme is already under way, medical staffs end patients in the hospitals enthusiastically co-operat-ing’with the workers. Timaru is the first centre of the Red Cross to have the services of Miss Hislop since her return, and after leaving there this week, she will continue her organising and advisory duties in other areas. Lieutenant-Colonel Betty Lorimer has arrived in Christchurch on a short visit to her parents. Mr and Mrs J. Lorimer, Edgeware road. “Because of export restrictions our overseas work has had to be curtailed.” states the annual report of the Friends of St. Helens. “Dried milk is on the black list, except for flOlb which was dispatched early last year. Permission has been obtained to send 7001 b of honey to Queen Charlotte Hospital, London, and to the Soldiers’, Sailors’ arid Airmen's Families’ Association, Glasgow. This will be shipped as soon as snipping space is available, Five parcels of clothing have algo been sent to Queen Charlotte Maternity Hospital. AU goods sent overseas have arrived safely.” “Almost everywhere in my travels I have met New Zealand women, and wherever they are, in Y.W.C.A. work, hospitals, and canteens, they are doing wonderful work,” said Lady Park, wife of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, when she spoke at a reception in her honour at the Red Cross rooms yesterday. The name of New Zealand women was honoured throughout the world, Lady Park said. She paid a special tribute to the work of Miss Jpan Begg, who, she said, never spared herself in serving others.

The thirty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the New Brighton Women’s Christian Temperance Union was celebrated recently. Mrs R. Flavel presided. Members stood in silence as a mark of respect to the memory of Mrs N. C. Fraser. Five members who have each worked for 20 years in the union were presented with sprays. A .musical programme was presented by Mesdames Middleton Jones.

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