WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3030, 17 March 1917, Page 5

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Continued from page 4.) Hospital Board Candidates, It mil he of interest to a good many women in this Citv to learn that Mrs. Grace Neill and Mrs. Cleghorn intend standing for seats upon the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Mrs. Neill has been associated with hospital work for many years and has had exceptional opportunities for gaining an insight as to tho best methods of hospital organisation. For several years she was Assistant Inspector of Hospitals under tho late Dr. M'Gregor. and sho has also been responsible for many improvements that have been carried out in the management of hospitals to-day. She has also been associated with the establishment of the St. Heleiis Hospitals, a far-seeing project for which the country to-dav cannot be too thankful. Mrs. Grace Neill was.also Inspector of Factories for somo time. For several months lately Mrs.- Neill was in charge of the Children's Hospital at Newtown, a work which she relinanishcd to 20 on a visit to America, from which sho returned some little while ago..

Mrs. Cleghorn, who has a wide circle of friends in Wellington, has also interested herself in public matters, and for some time was acting as secretary to the Kindergarten Council. 'The) wife of the late Dr. Cleghorn, a wellknown specialist, she came into touch ■with various public activities.

Several other ladies are standing, tlio Labour ticket supporting at least seven. These are Mrs. Snow, of the Housewives' Union, Mrs. Beck, Mrs. Atkin, Mrs. Medina, Mrs. Hazelwood, Miss M'Donald, Miss Cook. Privations in Lille. In a letter to a friend in Napier, a, Napier soldier at present in France, says: "To-day I was talking to French girl, who could speak English verv well, and she was telling me about a friend of hers who had just arrived from Lille, where she had been interned since 1914. They have had a roush time of it there, and this friend lived on rice for a whole year, everything being terribly expensive. For example, one egg cost Is. 3d., a piece nf meat (1J inches square), 2s. Id. Butter, sugar, etc., was not procurable. For a great luxury she had one potato for dessert every Sunday. Coal is the only thing that is cheap, and that is so because there .are so many mines round about Lille."