HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 89, 12 October 1934, Page 15

HERE AND THERE

Popular and Efficient.

Chosen by her colleagues as the most popular and efficient nurse in : tho Christchureh Public Hospital, Acting Sister Mamie ..Kensington has won ;a very well-deserved honour (states the " Christchurch Star"). Tho qualities for which she was chosen—sympathy, patience, skill, industry, knowledge of human nature, and understanding of patients—are the qualities of tho perfect nurse. According to the comments, of Matron Muir, nurses and patients, Sister Kensington has all those qualities,: and a .reporter who interviewed her added three others, the quality of command, modesty, and a. charming personality. She was born in Dunedin, and is a daughter of Mr. N. C. Kensington, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Otago. She received.training'in the. Karitane Hospital in Auckland, and is now in her fourth year at the Christ-, church Hospital, having passed her final State nurse's examination last. year. Sister Kensington has beeii granted sis months' leave.'of absence, and is entering the Alexandra Hospital, Wellington, in December, to take maternity training. "Bon Voyage" Expressed. At tho recent opening- of the Lyall Bay Bo\vling Club, prior to Mrs. Noad (wife of the president) putting up, the. silver jack, the secretary of the club, Mr. H. Q. Bruce, on behalf of the directorate- and: members, wished Mrs. Noad a pleasant holiday and safe return to the Dominion. Following the afternoon tea adjournment a circle of Mrs, Noad's frriends met in a pleasant informal gathering and wished her "bon voyage," with musical honours. .Many friends,, including representatives, of the. Lyall Bay Bowling and. Croquet Clubs, were present at the wharf yesterday on. the- departure of the boat to farewell the traveller on her journey, many floral tributes being- presented* Levin. Home. 'Miss Archibald presided at a, meeting of the Levin Memorial Home Committee on Tuesday last. The -matron, reported that all the inmates of the home were, in good health. Obituary. . i

Tb? death Qccurred at Mount Magdala Home on Tuesday of Sister M. of St. Liguori, wlio had been, dping -srorks

of charity iv Christchurch for twentyfive years, says a Press Association message. She was born at Duuedin, and was'a daughter of. Mr. J. A. McGrath, who later became an Inspector of Police.-^ ••• Lyceum Club',.; :'-,y; ,: Miss Andri' Bavin's papiis entertained the members of the Lyceum Club yesterday afternoon with a delightful programme of songs, assisted by Miss Hobbs, who charmed her audience with two pianoforte solos. Miss Jeanne Tonkies gave two songs, Miss M. Kember two songs, and Miss W. Burke four songs in costume, all generously responding with encores. Miss E. B. Thornhill read a most interesting paper oh "Poetry." Mrs.. E. M. .Sample thanked Miss Bevin on behalf of the members, and afternoon tea. was served. Amy Johnson Deplores Fame: Being the most celebrated airwoman in the world has not brought happiness, or even fortune; to Mrs. J. A. Mollison—still bettw-known £s Amy Johnson, states an exchange. She made a good- deal of money immediately after her famous flight to Australia, but she has just confessed to an interviewer that during the past' four yeari she has spent £15,000 and earned very little. She lives in a fashionable Park Lane hotel, and laments that she has lost the old friends she had w-hen.she was an unknown office girl, and has made no new ones since she became famous. Having approached all the leading English firms without success, she is now about to take up a job as demonstrator and saleswoman of American aeroplanes in Britain. A Woman Lord, Chancellor. Shall we ever see- a woman Lord Chancellor, sitting on the. Woolsack and presiding over the House of Lords? asks a-London, writer. The present Lord Chancellor (Lord Sanke-y) referred to the possibility recently. Iv presenting prizes at Roedean, the famous girls' school, he- said: "I am not at all sure that one of the girls I am now; addressing may not some day/ be. Lord Chancellor." It. is now; XL years since the first- woman was .called to the : Ban Women have been eligible to. sit in the House of Commons.,only, a' year or two longer, and already Britain, has had a woman' Cabinet Minister. . It also has I women preachers,, playing a prominent *

part in religious life. But women Judges—and. the Loi'd Chancellor is a Judge—are another matter.