Notes for Women

Southland Times, Issue 24822, 14 August 1942, Page 3

Notes for Women

Miss Maisie Oughton, Morton street, has returned from a visit to Miss Marjorie Baird, Otautau.

Mr and Mrs Neil Macdonald, Collingwood street, are the guests of their daughter, Mrs A. C. Millar, Arthur street. Miss Doreen Keir, Isla Bank, and Miss Joan Preston, Invercargill, left yesterday to join the W.A.A.F. at a northern air station. Miss Ruth Hierrick, director of the W.R.N.S., is expected to arrive m Dunedin this week. She will interview Otago applicants for this war service. Miss S. I. Halligan, who has just completed a course at the machine telegraph printing school, Wellington, is to take up a position as Creed operator in the Invercargill telegraph office shortly. So that next-of-kin of Southland prisoners of war will have an opportunity of meeting Lieutenant-Colonel A. A. Tennent. who was recently repatriated from an Italian camp, a reception will he held in the Y.M.C.A. rooms on Saturday afternoon. The Waiau Welfare Society again held a successful function in the Plunket room when £5/17/- was raised for parcels for local prisoners of war. The hostesses for the afternoon were Mesdames J. Mangan, W. Walker and A. McClymont. The winners of competitions were .Mrs J. Brown and Mrs C. Bruce.

The legation which the New Zealand Government has acquired in Washington is a well-gardened and tastefully-furnished brick mansion just behind the British Embassy. The Hon. Walter Nash and Mrs Nash gave a garden party there a few weeks ago for the United Nations delegations. Mrs Nash has already taken up some war work, and American women have been interested to hear about what is being done by women in New Zealand, and of their weaving, glove-making, and sewing of garments for shipment to Britain.