PERSONAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 84, 5 October 1940, Page 16

PERSONAL NOTES

Mrs. G. Gillon, Wellington, is visiting Christchurch where she is the guest of Mrs. Tyndall Harman, Tehdalton. Later she will stay with Mrs. - Guy Ronalds.

Mrs. David Allan and Miss. Barbara Allan, Bolton Street, have returned from a. visit to Edendale, Southland.

Miss Jean Paterson, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. T. Paterson, Ngaruawahia, who has been nursing in the Public Hospital, Auckland, will leave this month for Suva, where she will take up her duties as charge nurse in the Suva Hospital.

Mrs. R. W. Morrow, Christchurch, arrived at Wellington yesterday to stay with her son and daughter-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. R. David Morrow, Upper Hutt.

Mrs. James Ames has returned from Auckland and is the guest of Mrs. Percy Wheeler, Paekakariki.

Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Norman, Masterton, are visiting Christchurch.

Miss Sylvia Bell, of Timaru, is the guest in Wellington of Professor and Mrs. B. E. Murphy.

Mrs. C. Camp, sen., Wellington, is spending a holiday at Waverley as the guest of Mrs. G. Lupton.

Mrs. Robert G. Albe, who has been visiting Wellington, has returned to Auckland.

Amongst recent arrivals in Wellington is Miss W. Drumgool, who superintended the physical drill of a party of fifteen children on the voyage from the Old Country. Miss Drumgool took part in the Wembley Exhibition in 1939 as the New Zealand representative, the first sent as a physical culturist from this country. It is a subject in which she has always been interested, and she was of great assistance in organising games on deck. An Aucklander, Miss Drumgool has taken part in women's service for civil defence in England, and intends to go back to it at a later date.

Mrs. P. M. Redmayne, who was in charge of the latest batch of British children to arrive in New Zealand, is a Quakeress, but one would never suspect it from either her dress or her manner, while she laughingly admitted that only in the midst of her own family did she use the formal Quaker speech. "Nobody wears Quaker hats nowadays," she remarked. Child and peasant welfare over a wide part of Europe has interested her for years. She has worked in Russia and Greece, and when the debacle occurred in France she was engaged in refugee work there, managing to escape when the German troops marched in.