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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

.Wellington Red Cross Slibp, -. t To-day will bo tho Wadestowa Women's National Reserve Monthly cake day. t There will be the usual fine supply of 0 delicious cakes, also sweets and flowers s for sale, l'lic silverware no:l raffle lick- i c «ts may be.obtained, and shoulj. be nn attraction, as there is the chance of one ( of twelve handsoiiie prizes for Ihe mod- { est sibling. The following Friday will s be a' day of special interest, and is in t tho hands of the Terracjs. These work- ; ers, as before, are keen and eager to raise a large sum to help 01 lied Cross work, and their hopes have no chance of i disappointment. Town and country < friends should welcome a chance of such s a desirable possession as a fur coat, the t raffle for which will bo drawn on M- I (lay. Application for tickets at the i shop, by post, or otherwise will receive prompt attention. Red Cross days frota i the Terraces, Wadcstown AVomen's Na- | tional Reserve, be, John Ambulance Sen- ' ior Nursing Division,, the Doctors' Wives, * N.Z. Natives' Association, and Johnson- ' ville Women's National Reserve are pro- ' mised during the month of June, so that 1 the Rod Cross fund? will be greatly helped. The Commercial Travellers' day, in which the wives will tako a very prominent part, will Ue held uu i'tiriaj, August 9. , Red Cross Soldiers' Comforts Fund. j The hon. treasurer of the above fund i acknowledges the following donations re- i ceived during April and May:—Stratford i Red Cross, £10; Napier Red Cross Shop, JilO: Mrs. John Hutcheson, £2; Miss i Coatcs, -JSI.-'Miss C. L.'R.,'JB2. i To Save Housework, A committee of women'has been ap- j pointed to advise the Ministry of Kecon- ' struction on house-planning from the point of view of the housewife, states the "Daily News." It is felt that .in tho past not enough consideration ha 6 been givon to the comfort and convenienco of the women who are to live in the houses, and that in tho future moro attention should lie given to the saving o? labour for the wife. The committee will examine specimen houses and advise on house plans received from tho Architects' Committee. It will also report \ on such questions as internal fittings, position of doors and windows, size and number of rooms, gardens, communal arrangements, and the laying out of new districts in so far as it may affeot tho well-being of homos and the convenience of housewives. Work in a Casualty Clearing Station. Work in. a casualty, clearing station in Belgium is described in the following letter which was published in , "Kai Tiaki," tho New Zealand nurses' journal :-"W« stayed at that C.C.S. for, four months, and had tho most interesting time there. Tho unit, when we arrived, had only been, there four days, and tho place was still in a. State of chaos; but it was wonderful to sec how quickly things wore got into order, despite tho fact- that they hud to take in patients tho day after thoy arrived.; The wholo place, with the exception of the theatre, was under canvas, and, being the middle of summer, we found tho life vorv ploasant. The operating theatre was a large- wooden building, with light tables. • Row teams used to work at once, each surgeon running two tables, so there was no time lost between the cases. The placo was well equipped in every way, plenty of instruments and glov'es,\and nil the appliances for operating, and the giving of anaesthetics. As a rule, the r day teams worked from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m., arid were then reliflved by the night teams, but-when there was a great -rush of work ,tho day teams would go on working until midnight, and by doing that managed to keep pace with the work. Tho system of work at the clearing stations is excellent. There are always two or three st'ations close, to each other, one will ho receiving patients for twenty-four hours, or perhaps toko a certain unmoor, and then the next ohb will receive; this gives eaoh one tho ohanoo to get through nil their operations and elear. no ready for tho next rccoiving day. The patients are evaluated almost at once, only those who avo too ill to be inov«l_ are kept back. Wo had rather an exciting time whilst there, through the air-raids. Tho enemy 'planes were over nearly ovory clear night, and twice they dropped bombs light, in tho stations, the second time Sister Keluli—a .Now Zealander with an English Unit-'ftL orderly; and ,lwo patifints hoiii* killed, whilst several were wounded. We wfffo all supplied with (in helmets and gas masks, and wore supposed to go straight to the dujjout when tho noiso uf tne anti-aircraft guns started, and if that was not jtoseiblo we were advised to lie flat on the ground. Each timo I happened to be in the theatre, so I adopted the latter scheme. I think I told ,you before that were- wore up'ttiore for four months, and gradually the teams- returned to their own units as the work lessened, and a-fortnight after we left the C.C.S. was moved to fields and pastures now. I thoroughly enjoyed working with the English, but whilst there I also worked with Americans, Canadians, and Australians, .-. At one place in a theatre where ' four teams wero working together, there was our own, which was a mixed one, , next to us a Canndian, then an American, and tin- fourth table was 'All British,' " (A team consists of a surgeon, ,i an anaesthetist, a sister, and an |WMrs. M'Govern (Daiinevirke) is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Boddington, Mastortoh. ' The marriage look place on Saturday in St. Matthew's Church, Masterlon, of Miss Selina Jessie Simmonds to Quarter-master-Sergeant Colin J. Cunino, (if Featherston Camp. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. Walker, M.A. Miss Gilha Dalrymplo wns bridesmaid, and Sergeant-Major Errol Smith was best man. i Mrs. Mason Chambers (Hawko's Bay) is visiting her daughter, Mrs. L. >ielson. Karori. . Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Armour (Napierl have returned from a visit to Christchurch and Wellington. <i Writing to- a relative in Wellington ; a_ New Zealand lady at present in New York says-.—"l have not seen one drunken soldier here since America enI tcred the wa/\ Some wounded men have | returned, and their principal longing in the way of refreshments seems to bo ice | cream. There ! aro somo gloomy forebodings about the attitude of Japan. . . . j There will be a packing of soldiers' gift parcels by the Countess of Liverpool Fund, workers on Thursday.

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 219, 4 June 1918, Page 2

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 219, 4 June 1918, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 219, 4 June 1918, Page 2

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