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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2959, 23 December 1916, Page 5

Mrs. Audrey Johnston, of Napier, is visiting Christchurch. Mrs. W. H. Montgomery and her children, who havo been living in Wellington for the past few months, have gone to Little lliver to spend Christmas. Mr. J. A. Patterson and Sirs. Patterson, King's School, Parramatta, who havo como to New Zealand for tho holidays, aro at present in Christchurch, staying at the United Service Hotel. Miss 0. Wilkin (Fendalton) has aimed. at tho Lowry Bay Military Hospital, assisting with war work. _ Mrs. J. A. Poulton (opn\v;i) is on a visit to Hawke's Bay and Masterton. Mr. and Mrs. Middleton, of Wellington, are spending a few days at Taupo. Miss Beatty, matron of tho Knox Homo for Incurables, at Tamaki, Auckafter being connected with/ tho Home since its incoption, lias been granted a year's leave of absence to proceed to France with tho spccial draft of 25 nurses, sent there for duty. She was tho recipient of two presentations from tho trustees of the home and the staff oil Wednesday. Mrs. Algar Williams is staying in Trentham, in order to be near her husband, who is in camp there.

Mrs. F. Barkas, who has been in England for some years, returned to Now Zealand in tho Turakina, via the Panama Canal. She went to Timaru, where Mr. Barkas is managing the local branch of tho Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, and then paid) a round of visits to friends in Canterbury. _ Mrs. Barkas is now in Auckland, in order to meet Miss Barkas, who is half through her M.8., Lon., and is coming out to New Zealand for a trip. They are returning to London in time for Misr Barkas to reßume work at St. Mary's, Paddington, on May 1. Beforo studying medicine Miss Barkas took the diploma for homo science and economics at King's College, London. Mrs. Barkas is returning to Wellington about January 10 for a week or two.

A girls' camp is being arranged by tho Y.TV.C.A. at Karaka Bay, from Boxing Day to Now Year's Day. This camp will bo opened by a general picnic oil Boxing Day. Members and friends may attend this picnic with their baskets, and girls who will be free to attend tho camp may niako arrangements at tlio Y.W.C.A. Club-rooms, Herbert Street. The camp which was held last week at Island .Bay, was greatly enjoyed by grouos of business girls from some of tho city offices.

As the Walton-on-Thanics Hospital is still increasing in size, there has had to be a, corresponding increase in the staff, and a party of nurses who have already done fine work in Egypt have gone straight there, and are at work at the New Zealand Hospital, at Walton. They are Sisters M'Rao (Christchurch), sub-matron; Sister Stubbs (Ohristchurch), night_ superintendent; and Sisters E. Beswiok, E. M'Nae, Haste, Grigor (all of Christchurch), Chahnors, and U. S. Tucker (both of Dunedin), S. E. Morley (South Canterbury), Miller, and Eiorton. Walton Hospital, too, has required more probationers, and the following have late* ly taken, up duty there: Tho Misses Wenley (Napier), Nancy Johnson (Hawko's Bay), Shirris and Kerr (Dunedin), and Mrs. Martin (Palmerston Nortli). Tho huge expansion of the hospital has, too, required now and additioual provision for catering, and tho commissariat department is very capably undertaken by Commander-in-Chief Miss E. 51. Stuckoy_, a New Zcalander, formerly resident in Masterton, but of late years in Devonshire. Her V.A.D. staff of assistants comprise the Misses Stuckey, M. Ash (Wellington), and Jackson (Auckland).