NOTES FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10280, 15 May 1919, Page 11

NOTES FOR WOMEN

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Sister Brandon, who recently returned from active service, will on Saturday for Christchurch, where she will be stationed at the Military Orthopaedic Hospital tor a few weeks. She has been appointed to take charge of orthopaedic work at Rotorua as soon as the hospital there is equipped and ready for the treatment of soldiers. t We are authorised to state that the notice of the engagement of Lieutenant M. G. Luxlord, M.C„ of Auckland, to Miss Schulte, o" Warwickshire, announced by a London correspondent, is incorrect. Dr and Mrs Wilson, of Wanganui, are on a short visit to Wellington. Mr and Mrs'C. Fenwick, of Auckland. leave by the Tainui on a visit to America. Mr and Mrs W. J. Lanbshear and Miss Laukshear have left for a trip to England. Sister MacGregor, of Wellington, is visiting Geraldine. Mrs F. E. Bindley is visiting friends in South Canterbury. Mrs John i’rouso and Mr W. Prouse left bv the Corinthlc on a visit to England. Mr and Mrs B. MoEvedy, who have been visiting Dr McEvedy in Wellington, have returned south. Miss G, G. Brooke, N.Z.A.N.S., at one time matron at Trentham, and later of the hospital ship Maheno and the New Zealand Stationary Hospital in France, is at present on leave in London, and has undertaken the charge of the Y.M.C.A. Hostels for New Zealanders. The Y.M.C.A. took over three large houses when the inen began to come back from France m large numbers, and has been running these for the benefit of New Zealanders, as accommodation is unobtainable. Another New Zealander working for the Y.M.C.A. in London is Miss Sylvia Wilson, who was among the first war workers to go to Egypt and England, and who up till the signing of the Armistice was doing V.A.D. work at Brockenhurst.

Miss Mary Cooley, the clever little Wellington reciter, who won. the girls’ elocution champioijghip at the Wellington Competitions in February last, has been equally successful at the Christchurch competitions. She is the winner ol; the girls’ championship recitation, also securing first place in the sight-reading test for girls and boys under sixteen years. Nurse Galvey, of this city, is visiting Christchurch. Mrs Suisted (representing the Wanganui sub-centre) and Mrs Crook (representing the New Plymouth subcentre) were present at the Rd Cross annual mooting fast njight General .Richardson said that New Zealand had had no base hospitals in 'France, and its Stationary Hospital had only once been stationed in the New Zealand area. Thes Red Cross had assisted this hospital, and they were glad to have that opportunity of doing something for the British soldier from the New Zealand Red Cross.

At the advanced age of ninety years, an old resident of Auckland, Mrs Susan Arlington, died at a private hospital on Monday. The deceased arrived with her husband and four young children in Auckland by the sailing ship Maori on J anuary mb, 1867. Tho surviving members of the family are Mrs M. Marriott. Mrs A. J. Booth, Mr Robert J. Adlington, and Miss Edith Adlington. There are eight grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. A work of special importance has ■been begun in the city schools in tho provision of simple instruction in home nursing for the senior girls. Dr Ada Paterson, of the Jtduoation Department, and School-Nurse Willis visited Kilbirnie School this week and gnvo instructions to the girls on the principles and practice of nursing; The girls were shown how to make sick beds, take temperatures, sponge patients, and so on, and wore taught the principles of sick diet. The instruction, which was given with < practical demonstrations, was much appreciated by both pupils and teachers. It is intended to give similar instruction and demonstrations at other schools.

The" Society for the Protection of Women and Children has received the following letter from a correspondent: ■—“The school medical authorities wiah to draw attention to the irrational manner in which many children are elothod during the winter months, i'no modern fashion of dress gives scanty protection to the lower extremities. Children of the well-to-do may be seen wearing fur coats and mutts, but with legs practically protected only by their socks and shoes. Other children are equally nXiffled up, but equally chilly as to low'er hmbs. It is a common thing to find-in examining school children eight or even nine garments over the chest which end in an inadequate frill at the waist. It should be’ recognised that serious illness is frequently caused by clothing children in this way. Coughs and colds, rheumatism, digestive and kidney troubles may be thus'begun. Jllvory child, to meet with equanimity tno vagaries of our climate, should have Warm, knickers reaching to the knees, long woolly stockings, and strong shoes. A child 60 clothed is ha/rdened much more efficiently to endure the stress of weather and change of temperature.'/.

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NAVY LEAGUE WORK. A final meeting of the workers at the Naval Dependents' Depot, which has made garments for dependents of naval men under the auspices of the Navj League, was held yesterday a tte ™ oo “; Mrs Hall Thompson, president of the Ladies’ Auxiliary, took the chair. Mrs A. H. Waters, organiser of the depot, presented her report, which stated that the work was resumed m August, 1918, on the same hues as the previous year. Material was purchased wih contributions received, and the Wellington Woollen Company again sent out garments. Thirteen cases containing 1293 garments, valued at £293 7 s iOd, have been packed and forwarded to the following;—Six to Lady Drury, honorary general secretary Royal Naval Friendly Union of Sailors’ Wives, 2 to Hull, 1 to Ardrossan, 3 to Portsmouth Maternity Centre, t ond 1 to Rossyth. Since this work began, 91 cases, valued at over £IOOO, have been sent to naval ports, the total number of articles sent being 7030. Assistance has been received from 'the Wellington Box (Company, Singer Company, It. Martin, Ltd., E. W. Mills and Co., Bethune and Co., D. 1.0., Kirkoaldie and Stains, Colonial Carrying Company, and Mr Graham and boys of the Technical fl(ciiool.. Cases or bales of clothing have been received from the WjO.T. U., Napier; Ladiesf Patriotic Build, Raetihi; Anti-Qerman League; Okuiawa Women’s Patriotic Society; Ladies’ Auxiliary; Carterton Navy League; Women’s Sewing Guild, Shannon; and Waverley Patriotic League; also, parcels from various private people. Through Miss P- Myers, help was received from the following schools: —Brook Street Normal, Newtown, Makara, Tinui, Endeavour Inlet, Picton, Shannon, Mt. Bruce, Seddon, Alfredten, Eketahuna, Kohuaranga, Pirinoa, Hutt District High School, Tokomaru, Porirua, Khandallah, Port Underwood, Waiohangn, Eketahuna, the Convent (Island Bay), Miss Baber’s, and* St." Mark’s. Over 500 garments were sewn by the schools. This help has lightened the work at the depot. Teh organiser (Mrs A. H. Waters) has been greatly assisted by tire following, who worked at tie depot or made garments at home:—Mosdames T. A. Urwin, O. Tandy, Jackson-P aimer, W. Urwin, Burno, T. R. Wallace, and Misses Dupui, Tulloph, Bright, Hall, Sinclair, White, and Sutton. The total receipts were £66 3s Bd, all of which, except a balance'of 14s 10sd,' which has been handed to the Navy League secretary,; has been spent on material and requisites in connection with_ the work. Mrs Hall-Thompson said it was a very fine record of work. It had been especially difficult to collect work after the influenza epidemic. , A vote of Blanks to the school children for help in Navy League work was passed, also to the mistresses who had done much of the'sewmg left’over’ffdhi last year, Mrs Hall-Thompson read a report of the Ladies’ Emergency Committee in London, which had been sent to Captain Hall-Thompson. All naval officers and overseas Navy League branches (including Now Zealand) have contributed to .this work. The report stated : —The Ladies’ Emergency Committee was formed by the Navy League in August, 1914. The principal work was sending warm extra clothing to the men of the Navy, many millions hiving passed through the committee’s hands. It has also supplied GOO gramophones, also musical instruments, games, etc. The committee has also looked after the needs; of the Royal Naval hospitals and hospital ships, and has supplied 82 tons sowt of hospital equipments. The committee’s work for Royal Navy prisoners of war has dated from March, 1916, till day of. the Armistice, during which time every Royal Navy man, whether in Germany. Austria, or Turkey, has been sent full supplies. The utmost oare has been taken in the keeping of lists, labelling of parcels, buying of the best and most nutritious foods, and in tho dispatching of tobacco and cigarettes. All clothing went every six months, except overcoats, which went onoo a year. For Turkey, the system was different, but the oare i and expenditure were tho same. This committee instituted money payments to prisoners there, as the dispatch of parcels on account of transport was limited. Games and books went ( to all camps, and musical instruments, drugs and medical comforts wore sent to every man until the Central Committee established a bulk supply to be sent from Home. Every prisoner’s acknowledgment cards and letters were carefully kept. The engagement is announced ot Miss Molly Mace, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs W. Mace, Lansdowne. Masterton, and Captain Charles Eustace Isbister, of Wellington, third son of Mr John Malcolm Isbister, of Wimbledon, Surrey, England (says a Walrarapa paper), TOUR HAIR. 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