Miss Wrench's Suggestion,

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1687, 1 March 1913, Page 14

Miss Wrench's Suggestion,

Our Auckland correspondent writes that a valuable suggestion, which may result n something T>eing done in the neat fuwith' M?V"i oa & Mi , 63 WreMh - wll ° with Mr. Evelyn Wrench left for tho Islands on'.Wednesday evening, regarding tho training of tho New Zealand girl! r \t said that tho young men of Now Zealand and Australia were cheerfully sacrificing some of their lelsuro time 111 learning to defend their country and their homes. Why should not tho girls do something on parallel lines F She suggested that the girls of Now Zealand should bo called upon to take courses in some sort of domestio training, especially 111 kindergarten work and lessons in motherhood. This would bo a work in a good cause. It would be an effort to make tho homes which young men were learning to defend ideal ones for the young men and women themselves. It would also give tho girls training in those subjects which were nearest or should be nearest' to their hearts, and it might give those young women_ who nowadays considered domestio framing as a secondary thing in their lives that liking for home matters' which everyone of them should have instinctively, but which with many of them was hampered and even obliterated altogether by. present-day .systems'.

Classes in connection with the St. John' Ambulance Brigade; (Wellington South. . Nursing Division) commeno? on Maroh i, and ladies desirous of joinihg aio' wel- ■ corned- by tho committee on the evening of March 4 (Tuesday), in St. James'o classroom, next Library, in Riddiford Street, These classes are carried on by tho St. John Ambulance Brigade for tho following reasonsTo enable those holding first-aid and nursing certificates to meet together for tho jnirposo of developing the instruction imparted by tho mcdical profession in ambulance and * nursing work. To afford skilful nursing to tho poor in. tlieir own homes during severe illness or in ease of j accident. To organise highly-trained nursing contingents prepared to nurse tho wounded in time of war. In addition to the practice of bandaging and all tho necessary requirements in cases of sickness ana accidents, as well ns homo nursing, lectures aro to bo -given by members of the medical faoulty in Wellington, finishing with examinations on September 16, and inspection on September 80. Mrs. Macfarlano is tho guest of Mm. Aj P. Webster, Wellington. - • , Mita Webster returned from CUv# Grange yesterday. The Girls' Branch of tho Victoria Leaguo holds its first meeting for tho r year on Monday, March 17. Mrs. Neville has returned to Wellington from her visit to Tiinaru. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Williams leavo in a fow woeks' timo for the Northern Territory of Australia., Miss Iv. Stewart, of tho local telophono exchango, has received notioo 01 transfer to tho Christcliurch Exchange, Sho lcares for the south by tho Mararo* to-night. Mr. and Mrs. Murison (Lower Butt) aro | leaving shortly to reside in Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Monek.tovi and Miss Eva Mbnckton loft for Sydney, yesterday en route l'or England. Mr. and Mrs. Nolan (Gisborno) and family leave by the lkmuera on a visit to England. Mrs. Gracio. widow of tho la_to William Gracie, of the firm of Graeic, Beasley , and Co., shipowners, Liverpool, is visiting New Zealand, and is (it present stayins in Auckland.