CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24913, 28 June 1946, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

The Dominion Voluntary Aid Council yesterday tendered a reception to Lady Freyberg, who has been appointed commandant-in-chief of the Voluntary Aid Detachment of the Red Cross. She said no work lay nearer her heart, and paid a warm tribute to the work of the New Zealand Red Cross services overseas.—(P.A.) The president (Sir Joseph Ward) ? resided at yesterday’s meeting of the ‘ravel Club. Songs were sung by Mr Claude Burrowes, and the accompanist was Mrs C. Shaw. Mesdames Graham and H. Goggin were the hostesses. Miss M. Williams, the re-cently-appointed secretary of the Travel Club, was welcomed. The American Red Cross is to be asked by the New Zealand Red Cross Society to get in touch with United States husbands individually who are seeking to divorce their New Zealand wives after marriages contracted in war time. The New Zealand Society will ask that the American Red Cross representatives speak on behalf of each girl to her husband. This was announced by Mr S. Galloway, Dominion secretary of the New Zealand Red Cross, at a meeting of wives held In Wellington under the auspices of the New Zealand Eagle Club.— (P.A.) The Christchurch branch of the Plunket Society has for some time been deeply concerned with the problem of supplying an adequate Plunket service to the mothers living in the large State housing settlements, who in many instances have to travel long distances to the nearest Plunket rooms. This work will now be facilitated by the purchase of a mobile unit, which has been made possible by the Canterbury Licensed Victuallers’ Association and the North Canterbury Provincial Council of the Licensed Trade, who have given the purchase price of a mobile unit which was used as an optical unit during the war. The president (Mrs G. H. Watts) presided yesterday at the annual meeting of the Women’s branch of the Citizens’ Association. A talk on the transit, camp at Harewood was given by Mr G. D. Griffiths. He said that the school at the camp would probably be open in about one week’s time. The residents were all very appreciative of the accommodation which they had and which was a thousand times better than what some of them had had to put up with for years previously, said Mr Griffiths. The following officers were appointed yesterday at the annual meeting of the women’s branch of the Citizens’ Association:—patronesses, Lady Acland, Mrs J. Cracroft Wilson, Mrs W. S, Bean; president, Mrs G. H. Watts; vice-presidents, Miss Mary McLean, Mrs D. Bowse, Mrs B. White; treasurer, Mrs C. G. Schumacher; committee, Mesdames F. L. Brandt, L. M. Buckley, W. Skelton, G. R. Watts, D. Coles, R. Gibson, E. McLean, and H. E. Radley. The annual women’s evening of the Christchurch Welsh Society was held recently. The programme was arranged by the hostess (Mrs R. Wynne-Owen). Items were given by Mesdames P. Tyler, and W. J. Roberts, Misses G. Torkington, Noeline Box, E. Fitzgerald, and Rona Cox (songs); Mrs Middleton (monologues); Betty Whitlock and P. Woolf (recitations); Gwynfa Williams (piano solos); and Mrs Greenwood (’cello solos). A Welsh ballet was presented by pupils of the Wilders McMullan«School of Dancing. The accompanists were Misses Bronwen Griffiths and Snell, and Mesdames Williams and WynneOwen.

“Rambles in the Near East with a Movie Camera” was the subject of a group aid film talk given recently by Mr R. W. Blair, M.8.E., to members of the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing. Mr Blair went to the Near East with the Church Army in the early days of the war. The programme was chosen to show only glimpses of the -A tragedy of war, and dealt with the everyday camp life of the men, trajisp>/rt, commissariat, recreations, sport and pastimes. “That State Control is Detrimental to Progress’’ was the subject, of de?, bate between St. Christopher’s. Younger Set and Young Women’s Christian Association Debating Clubs. Teams were: Young Women’s Christian Association (affirmative), Misses B, Walker, D. Chapman, and U. Powell; St. Christopher’s (negative), Misses J. Anderson, B. Lee, and E. Gdanitz. The judge (Mr H. P. Smith) awarded his decision to the team for the negative. A rehabilitation bursary for the study of the latest developments in treatments of crippled children has been awarded to a Wellington masseuse, Miss Patricia Greenfield-Brown. Miss Greenfield-Brown, after completing her massage training, specialised in massage for crippled children. Before the war she was working with the Crippled Children Society. Last year she returned from the Middle East after four and a half years with the Army Nursing Service. She is planning to make a six months’ tour of clinics and children’s hospitals in England and Scotland. She hopes to study at large English hospitals which specialise in child crippled cases, of which there is none in New Zealand.

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