HARD OF HEARING ENJOY MONTHLY PROGRAMMES

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 189, 9 May 1944, Page 6

HARD OF HEARING ENJOY MONTHLY PROGRAMMES

Social activities of the League for the Hard of Hearing have, this year,-been held monthly. An outing to Ilnnmerton in January was followed up by a leap year party on February 29. I oil the March evening. Captain Smyth told ot his army travels and experiences, illustrated with lantern slides of snapshots ho had taken, aud -Miss Dorothy Seymour and her pupils provided elocutionary items. Last month a programme ot sketches from Dickens’ works, spersed by songs., was presented by e Dickens fellowship. Hard of htarin ß persons have been able to enjoy these items with the help of the group hearing aid. and supper has been served . each night to about 80 members and friends.

The Marriage Bond. There was a good attendance at the April meeting of the Johnsonville League of Mothers, the president, Mrs. R. Hogg, being in the chair. An address on the sanctity of marriage was given by the Rev J Lea Andrew. Enjoyable items were contributed by an instrumental trio, Mesdames Paterson, Robinson and Davis, with Mrs. Kettlewell as soloist in two numbers.

Red Cross Record. With a service card showing a little more than 8000 working hours on the nursing staff of the Grey Hospital, Miss Leola Brown. Greymontli, has the distinction of being the first member of the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment on the West Coast to secure, with honours, the second bar Io her home nursing medallion obtained in recent, home nursing examinations.